- or Tomb of the Patriarchs,
known to Jews by its
Biblical name Cave of
Machpelah (Biblical Hebrew: מְעָרַת הַמַּכְפֵּלָה, romanized: Məʿāraṯ hamMaḵpēlā...
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Machpelah Cemetery is a
Jewish cemetery located within the
Cemetery Belt in Glendale, Queens, in the U.S.
state of New York. It was
established around...
- at the age of 147. He is
supposed to have been
buried in the Cave of
Machpelah.
Jacob had
twelve sons
through four women: his
wives (and cousins), Leah...
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Machpelah Cemetery may
refer to:
Machpelah Cemetery (Mount Sterling, Kentucky)
Machpelah Cemetery (Lexington, Missouri),
listed on the US
National Register...
- The
Machpelah Cemetery, also
spelled as "Macpelah Cemetery", or "Macphelah Cemetery", is a
cemetery in
Hudson County, New Jersey.
Machpelah Cemetery is...
- with more than 2,000
mourners in attendance. He was
interred in the
Machpelah Cemetery in Glendale, Queens, with the
crest of the
Society of American...
- to Ephrath, just
outside Bethlehem, and not in the
ancestral tomb at
Machpelah (where her
husband Jacob and her
sister Leah were buried). Rachel's Tomb...
-
again innumerable descendants. On the
death of Sarah,
Abraham purchases Machpelah (believed to be
modern Hebron) for a
family tomb and
sends his servant...
- Hittites.
According to Genesis, the
Hittite Ephron sold
Abraham the cave of
Machpelah in
Hebron for use as a
family tomb. Later, Esau
married wives from the...
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family would not
allow her to be
interred with her late
husband at the
Machpelah Cemetery in Queens, New York, as she had been
raised a
Roman Catholic...
