Thematic Bible: Was the burial place of the patriarchs

Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.

Verse Concepts

BonesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsLove, And The World

ExhumationsGod VisitingPeople Bound By Oaths

For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.

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empiresCavesTombs

Caves For BuryingThe Cave Of MachpelahCaves Used As Graves

And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite, In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place. There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest.