Motif
Ancestral burial cave and being gathered to one's people
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A motif of the Heroic Funeral Rites and Memorialization family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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jewish christian
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Genesis Chapter 46 / Chapter 47 / Chapter 48 / Chapter 49; lines 3266-3332 confidence: high
Jacob instructs burial with his fathers in the cave in the field of Machpelah, purchased from Ephron the Hittite; Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, and Leah are named as buried there or in that place.
Jacob requests burial with his fathers in the Machpelah cave, where named family members were buried, and then dies and is gathered to his people.
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