Genesis 25:10

10 Thus Abraham and his wife Sarah were both buried in the field Abraham had purchased from the Hittites.

Genesis 25:10 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 25:10

The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth
Of one of them, Ephron, the rest being witnesses of it, ( Genesis 23:16 Genesis 23:18 Genesis 23:20 ) ;

there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife;
Sarah had been buried there thirty eight years before, which was the reason why his sons buried, him there; if he died in Beersheba, as seems probable, see ( Genesis 24:62 Genesis 24:67 ) ; from thence to Hebron were sixteen miles ^F8; so far was he carried to be interred.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Bunting's Travels, p. 57.

Genesis 25:10 In-Context

8 Abraham took his last breath and died after a good long life, a content old man, and he was placed with his ancestors.

9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave in Machpelah, which is in the field of Zohar's son Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.

10 Thus Abraham and his wife Sarah were both buried in the field Abraham had purchased from the Hittites.

11 After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac lived in Beer-lahai-roi.

12 These are the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore for Abraham.