“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 for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.”
They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite. The burial at Machpelah is the legal, specific, covenant completion of Jacob's final request. The application: the covenant patriarch who died in Egypt is buried in the covenant land, in the one piece of the promised land the covenant family owns. The promise of return is kept in the bones.
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