That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
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Gill's Exposition
That he may, give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath,
which is in the end of his field,.... The Targum of Jonathan renders it, "the double cave", and so do the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin…
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Here is, I. The humble request which Abraham made to his neighbours, the Hittites, for a burying-place among them, Gen 23:3, Gen 23:4. It was strange he had this to do now; but we are to impute it…
Cambridge Bible
the cave of Machpelah Machpelah is not the name of the cave, but of the locality; cf. 17, Gen 49:30; Gen 50:12. The old explanation that the cave was so called, because it was "a double cave," has…