Bible Strands
Genesis 49:31
There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jacob speaks to his sons while detailing his final arrangements, pointing them toward a specific plot in Canaan designated for family interment.
The words — שָ֣מָּ/ה (Sha.ma/h) = there/ <towards> [H8033] and קָֽבְר֞וּ (ka.ve.Ru) = people buried [H6912] anchor the statement to a fixed location and a completed historical action.
The thread — Genesis 49:30 identifies the site as the field of Machpelah near Mamre, Genesis 49:32 confirms its purchase from the Hittites, and Genesis 25:9 notes Abraham’s prior burial there.
Why it lands — The text establishes a continuous physical claim to Canaan through successive patriarchal burials, requiring the reader to track the geographic and genealogical continuity without assuming theological meaning beyond the recorded interments.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Cross-references
- Genesis 25:9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
- Genesis 35:29 Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- Genesis 23:3 Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
- Genesis 23:16 Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
- Genesis 47:30 but when I lie down with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me with them.” Joseph answered, “I will do as you have requested.”
- Genesis 50:13 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.
- Acts 7:16 Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.