Motif
Cave burial
cave_burial
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 Footnotes / Chapter 22 / Footnotes / Chapter 23; lines 1333-1377 confidence: high
Abraham bows to the children of Heth and asks them to entreat Ephron son of Zohar to sell him the cave of Machpelah at full price as a burial place.
The cave of Machpelah is requested and acquired as a burial place, and Sarah is buried in it.
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