KJV King James Version
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
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Genesis 49:31
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.
WEB World English Bible
There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:
ASV American Standard Version
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah—
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
(there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah);
Surrounding context — Genesis 49
28 All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel: and this [is it] that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
29 And 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,
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 of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that [is] therein [was] from the children of Heth.
33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
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שָׁ֣מָּהH8033 · shamthereקָֽבְר֞וּH6912 · qa.varto buryאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אַבְרָהָ֗םH85 · av.ra.hamAbrahamוְאֵת֙H853 · et[Obj.]שָׂרָ֣הH8283 · sa.rahSarahאִשְׁתּ֔וֹH802 · ish.shahwomanשָׁ֚מָּהH8033 · shamthereקָבְר֣וּH6912 · qa.varto buryאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]יִצְחָ֔קH3327 · yits.chaqIsaacוְאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]רִבְקָ֣הH7259 · riv.qahRebekahאִשְׁתּ֑וֹH802 · ish.shahwomanוְשָׁ֥מָּהH8033 · shamthereקָבַ֖רְתִּיH6912 · qa.varto buryאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]לֵאָֽה׃H3812 · le.ahLeah
Cross-references
Genesis 25:9And 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 35:29And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, [being] old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.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 23:16-20And 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.Genesis 23:3And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,Acts 7:16And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor [the father] of Sychem.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.
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