Genesis 49:31
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.”
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“There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.”
King James Version · Public Domain“There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah—”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“(there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah);”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 49:31 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 23:3Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
- Genesis 23:16Abraham 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 25:9His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
- Genesis 25:10This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
- Genesis 29:16Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
- Genesis 35:29Then 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 47:30but 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 50:13They 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 7:16Their 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.
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