Places

Oak of Mamre

A landmark at Hebron facing the Machpelah burial cave; in Genesis 50 Jacob is buried at Machpelah facing Mamre.

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First mention

Genesis 13:18

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Genesis 13, 18, 23, 25, 35, 49-50Landmark

Scripture references

  • Genesis 13:18

    So Abram moved his tent and went to settle at the Oak of Mamre, at Hebron, and there he built an altar to Yahweh.

  • Genesis 18:1

    Yahweh appeared to him at the Oak of Mamre...

  • Genesis 23:19

    Abraham buried his wife Sarah ... facing Mamre -- now Hebron -- in the land of Canaan.

  • Genesis 25:9

    His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah facing Mamre, in the field of Ephron the Hittite son of Zohar.

  • Genesis 35:27

    Jacob came home to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-Arba -- now Hebron -- where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

  • 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 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.