“They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.”
Genesis 50:13
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Connection with the death and burial of Sarah
Abraham bought this cave to bury Sarah, and Genesis names that purchase four more times after Genesis 23. On his deathbed Jacob listed who lay there: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Leah (Genesis 49:31). Now his sons carried his body up out of Egypt to lie with them.
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Jacob was gathered to his people when he died in Egypt (Genesis 49:33), and the embalming and mourning took more than three months. Only then did his sons bury him here at Machpelah. As with Abraham (Genesis 25:8), being gathered to his people came before the burial.
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