“There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.”
There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and there I buried Leah. The enumeration of those already buried at Machpelah — Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Leah — is the covenant community's dead, gathered in the one owned piece of the promised land. The application: the covenant dead are gathered at Machpelah. Leah, the unloved wife, lies in the covenant cave with Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah.
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