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Joseph among mourners at the entrance of the ancestral burial cave in Canaan.
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Genesis 50:12-14

Burial at Machpelah

Forgiveness and Hope · Genesis 50

Story guide: Jacob’s sons bury him in the cave of Machpelah, then return to Egypt.

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12So his sons did for him as he had commanded them.

13His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham had bought with the field as a burial property from Ephron the Hittite, opposite Mamre.

14Then Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

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