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Machpelah , cave, near Hebron; also called the Cave of the Patriarchs. The Book of Genesis relates that it was bought by Abraham from Ephron, son of Zohar the Hittite, for a family burial place. The Mosque of Ibrahim, which now encloses the site, may be a successor to a structure built by the Herods. The mosque was the site of the murder of Muslim worshipers by an extremist Jewish settler in 1994.

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Machpelah The place near Mamre where the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their wives were buried (Gen. 49: 29; 50: 12–13). The site was in or near Hebron (Gen. 23: 19), but in Shechem according to Acts 7: 15–16. Walls possibly built in the time of Herod the Great surround the Hebron site, which is venerated by both Jews and Muslims.

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Machpelah, Cave of. Burial place of the Jewish patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The site of the Cave of Machpelah is identified with Haram el-Khalil in Hebron.

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