Genesis 49:31 meaning and explanation

There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.

Genesis 49:31, Berean Standard Bible

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Jacob is dying in Egypt and instructing his sons to bury him in the cave of Machpelah in Canaan, the family burial site Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite. In this verse he lists the graves already there: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Leah, his own first wife, whom he buried there himself.

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