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Ephron replies that the field is worth four hundred shekels of silver and Abraham agrees to the price without any further bargaining. [23] He then proceeded to bury his dead wife Sarah there. [24] The burial of Sarah is the first account of a burial [25] in the Bible, and Abraham's purchase of Machpelah is the first commercial transaction ...
Mamre has frequently been associated with the Cave of the Patriarchs. According to one scholar, there is considerable confusion in the Biblical narrative concerning not only Mamre, but also Machpelah, Hebron and Kiryat Arba, all four of which are aligned repeatedly. [13] In Genesis, Mamre is also identified with Hebron itself (Genesis 23:19, 25 ...
A third has Adam and Eve buried in the cave of Machpelah. A Jewish-Christian tradition had it that Adam was formed from the red clay of the field of Damascus, near Hebron. [302] [303] A tradition arose in medieval Jewish texts that the Cave of the Patriarchs itself was the very entrance to the Garden of Eden. [304]
According to Genesis, the Hittite Ephron sold Abraham the cave of Machpelah in Hebron for use as a family tomb. Later, Esau married wives from the Hittites. In the Book of Joshua 1:4, when the Lord tells Joshua "From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be ...
Rebecca was buried in the Cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan (Gen. 49:31). According to the Talmud, the Torah's explicit dating of the life of Ishmael helps to date various events in Jacob's life and, by implication, the age of Rebecca at her death.
Authentic “Herodian masonry” includes examples at the sites at Hebron (Elonei Mamre, [8] the Cave of Machpelah), in the Augusteum in Sebastia and possibly also in the Herodian platform at Caesarea Maritima. In Jerusalem, in addition to the Temple Mount, Herodian stones are preserved beneath the Damascus Gate.
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The Gemara granted that the meaning of "Machpelah"—"double"—was understandable according to the one who said the cave consisted of one room above the other, but questioned how the cave was "Machpelah"—"double"—according to the one who said it consisted of two rooms, one farther in than the other, as even ordinary houses have two rooms.