KJV King James Version
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 23:19
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And after this hath Abraham buried Sarah his wife at the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (which is Hebron), in the land of Canaan;
Surrounding context — Genesis 23
16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant.
17 And the field of Ephron, which [was] in Machpelah, which [was] before Mamre, the field, and the cave which [was] therein, and all the trees that [were] in the field, that [were] in all the borders round about, were made sure
18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan.
20 And the field, and the cave that [is] therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
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וְאַחֲרֵי־H310 · a.charafterכֵן֩H3651 · kenrightקָבַ֨רH6912 · qa.varto buryאַבְרָהָ֜םH85 · av.ra.hamAbrahamאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]שָׂרָ֣הH8283 · sa.rahSarahאִשְׁתּ֗וֹH802 · ish.shahwomanאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)מְעָרַ֞תH4631 · me.a.rahcaveשְׂדֵ֧הH7704 · sa.daySirionהַמַּכְפֵּלָ֛הH4375 · makh.pe.lahMachpelahעַל־H5921 · aluponפְּנֵ֥יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeמַמְרֵ֖אH4471 · mam.reMamreהִ֣ואH1931 · huhe/she/itחֶבְר֑וֹןH2275 · chev.ronHebronבְּאֶ֖רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetכְּנָֽעַן׃H3667 · ke.na.anCanaan
Cross-references
Ecclesiastes 12:5Also [when] they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and fears [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:Genesis 35:27-29And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which [is] Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.Genesis 47:30But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.Ecclesiastes 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.Genesis 25:9-10And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre;Genesis 49:29-32And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite,Genesis 50:13For 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 buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.Genesis 50:25And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.Job 30:23For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
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