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Genesis 49:29-31
And he charged them, and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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Genesis 50:13,25
For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burial plot of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
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Joshua 24:32
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
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Library

The Death of the Blessed virgin Mary at Ephesus
... a short time before; he often traveled to the Promised Land. ... at the head and foot
of the holy body ... at the entrance, and then one saw the burial-place before one ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xviii the death of the.htm

Appendix D.
... said to have been "full of the Holy Ghost," so ... Stephen says, is, that Abraham bought
the burial-place "of the ... spot in India, where the value of land was fully ...
//christianbookshelf.org/burgon/inspiration and interpretation/appendix d.htm

Chapter xxviii
... patriarchs have as yet no permanent possession except a burial place. ... heaven and
earth, mediated through God's holy angels and ... "To this land," 'adhamah "to ...
/.../leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xxviii.htm

Funeral Oration on Meletius .
... of thought he may set foot upon that holy land where there ... he would take the same
pains over the burial of an ... over a Socrates, and that he would place the same ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/funeral oration on meletius.htm

Chapter xlix
... displayed this attitude, though not in a holy cause, in ... of his own possession" in
the land where he ... renders it well Erbbegraebnis, "a hereditary burial plot.". ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xlix.htm

Chapter xxxv
... who failed to recognize that the holy place was meant ... does not necessarily involve
that the burial took place ... may have been several such Ephraths in the land. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xxxv.htm

The Book of Jubilees
... 46:12, 17), adds in their place four sons ... of Joseph's interment in the Holy Land
being postponed ... and many other particulars, including Leah's death and burial. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/deane/pseudepigrapha/the book of jubilees.htm

Papal Tombs.
... martyrs, and obeyed the rule which forbade burial within the ... the British Isles was
composed of three holy men, Mellitus ... spring of 596, but could not land on the ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter v papal tombs.htm

Questions.
... 64. What of the dying among the wicked and the burial?"Psalm 88:3, 4."Isaiah
53:9. ... What festival was taking place? 27. ... Why could not the Holy Land be kept? ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/questions.htm

The Divine Liturgy of James the Holy Apostle and Brother of the ...
... His saving cross, His death and His burial, and resurrection ... do Thou give rest there
in the land of the ... and of Isaac, and of Jacob, our holy fathers; whence ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/various/early liturgies/the divine liturgy of james.htm