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Machpelah

Machpelah

31.5247°, 35.1108° Identification — certain

The Korean name is a draft derived from the Korean Bible and has not been reviewed yet.

Abarim Cabul 2 Edom Midian Jerusalem Samaria 1 Sodom Mount Sinai Kadesh-barnea Gaza Ramoth-gilead Hebron Mamre Beth-anoth Janim Halhul Beth-tappuah Jokdeam Jorkeam Machpelah
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Where the Bible names it (6)

  1. Genesis 23:9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place.”
  2. Genesis 23:17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded
  3. Genesis 23:19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
  4. Genesis 25:9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,
  5. Genesis 49:30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
  6. Genesis 50:13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

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