“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, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.