Places
Machpelah
Machpelah is the field and cave Abraham purchases from Ephron; in Genesis 50 Jacob's sons bury him there facing Mamre.
Category
Places
First mention
Genesis 23:9
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Scripture references
- Genesis 23:9
let me have the cave he owns at Machpelah...
- Genesis 23:17
Thus Ephron's field at Machpelah ... passed into Abraham's possession.
- Genesis 23:19
Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah...
- Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah...
- Genesis 49:30
in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, in Canaan, which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.
- Genesis 49:31
There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried. There Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried; and there I buried Leah-
- Genesis 50:13
His sons carried him to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.