Thematic Bible: Machpelah
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Machpelah » The burying place of sarah, abraham, isaac, rebekah, leah, and jacob
Their bodies were carried back [from Egypt] to Shechem and buried in the tomb that Abraham had purchased in Shechem from the sons of Hamor for a sum of silver. [Note: "Shechem" was a town in Israel, the country which in New Testament times was known as Samaria].
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