Acts 7:16

Coverdale Bible (1535)

and were brought ouer vnto Siche, and layed in the sepulcre, that Abraham boughte for money of the children of Hemor at Sichem.

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  • Josh 24:32 : 32 The bones of Ioseph, which the children of Israel had broughte out of Egipte, buried they at Sichem, in the pece of the londe, yt Iacob boughte of the children of Hemor ye father of Sichem for an hundreth pens, and was the enheritaunce of the children of Ioseph.
  • Exod 13:19 : 19 And Moses toke Iosephs bones with him, for he toke an ooth of the children of Israel, and sayde: God wyll surely vyset you, therfore cary awaye my bones with you from hence.
  • Gen 23:16 : 16 Abraham herkened vnto Ephron, and weyed him the money which he had sayde, that the Hethites might heare: namely foure hundreth syluer sycles of currant money amonge marchauntes.
  • Gen 33:9-9 : 9 Esau sayde: I haue ynough my brother, kepe that thou hast. 10 Iacob answered: Oh nay, but yf I haue founde grace in yi sight, receaue my present of my hande (for I sawe thy face, as though I had sene the face of God) and be at one with me. 11 Take this present in good worth, that I haue brought ye, for God hath geuen it me, & I haue ynough of all thinges. So he compelled him to take it. 12 And he sayde: Let vs go on and take oure iourney, I wyll go in thy company. 13 But he sayde vnto him: My lorde, thou knowest that I haue tender children by me, and small and greate catell also, which are yet but yonge: yf they shulde be dryue ouer in one daye, the whole flocke wolde dye. 14 Let my lorde go on before his seruaut. I wyll dryue after fayre and softly, (there after as the catell & the children can go,) tyll I come to my lorde in Seir. 15 Esau sayde: Yet wil I leaue some of my people with the. He answered: What nede is it? Let me but onely fynde grace in the sight of my lorde. 16 So Esau departed againe the same daye towarde Seir, 17 and Iacob toke his iourney towarde Sucoth, and buylded him an house, and made tetes for his catell. Therfore is the place called Sucoth. 18 Afterwarde came Iacob peaceably vnto the cite of Sichem, which lyeth in ye lande of Canaan, after that he was come agayne out of Mesopotamia, and pitched before the cite, 19 and bought a pece of londe of the children of Hemor ye father of Sichem for an hundreth pens. There pitched he his tent, 20 and there he set vp an altare, and called vpon the name of the mightie God of Israel.
  • Gen 34:2-9 : 2 Whan Sichem the sonne of Hemor the Heuite (which was lorde of the lode) sawe her, he toke her, and laye with her, and forced her, 3 and his hert hanged vpon her, and he loued ye damsell, and talked louyngly with her, 4 and spake to his father Hemor: Get me this mayden to wife. 5 And Iacob vnderstode, that Dina his doughter was defyled, and his sonnes were with the catell in the felde, and Iacob helde his tonge tyll they came. 6 Then Hemor the father of Sichem wente forth vnto Iacob to comen with him. 7 In the meane season came Iacobs sonnes from ye felde. And whan they herde it, it greued the men, and they were very wroth, that he had wrought foly in Israel, and lyen with Iacobs doughter: for so was not the vse to do. 8 Then comened Hemor with the, and sayde: My sonne Sichems hert longeth for youre doughter, O geue hir him to wife: 9 make frendshipe with vs, geue vs youre doughters, and take ye oure doughters, 10 and dwell with vs, the londe shall be open vnto you, dwell and occupie, and haue youre possessions therin. 11 And Sichem sayde vnto hir father and brethren: Let me fynde grace with you: loke what ye appoynte me, I will geue it: 12 requyre the dowrye and gift of me hardely, I wyll geue it acordinge as ye wyll axe, onely geue me the damsell to wife. 13 Then Iacobs sonnes answered Sichem and Hemor his father (and spake disceatfully, because their sister Dina was defyled) 14 & sayde vnto them: That can we not do, to geue oure sister to an vncircumcided man: for that were a shame vnto vs. 15 Neuertheles we wyll consente vnto you, yf ye wylbe like vnto vs, and be circumcided as many as are males amonge you: 16 then will we geue you oure doughters, and take youre doughters vnto vs, and dwell with you, and be one people. 17 But yf ye wyll not herken vnto vs, to be circumcided, then wyl we take oure doughter, and go oure waye. 18 These wordes pleased Hemor and his sonne wel, 19 and the yonge man deferde not to do the same, for he had lust to Iacobs doughter: and he was holden in honoure aboue all in his fathers house. 20 Then came Hemor and Sichem his sonne vnder ye gate of cite, and comened with the citisens of the cite, and saide: 21 These men are peaceable with vs, and will dwell in the lande and occupye: now is the londe brode of both the sydes, we wyl take their doughters vnto vs, and geue them oure doughters. 22 But then wyll they consent vnto vs, to dwell by vs, and to be one people with vs, yf we circumcyse all the men children amonge vs, like as they are circumcysed: 23 their catell and goodes, and all that they haue, shalbe ours, yf we consent vnto them, that they maye dwel with vs. 24 And they herkened vnto Hemor and Sichem his sonne, as many as wente out and in at ye gate of his cite, and circumcided all the males, that wente out and in at his cite. 25 And vpon the thirde daye (whan it was panefull to them) the two sonnes of Iacob Simeon and Leui Dinas brethren, toke euery man his swerde, and wente boldly in to the cite, and slew all the males, 26 and slew Hemor also and Sichem his sonne with the edge of the swerde, and toke their sister Dina out of Sichems house, and wente their waye. 27 Then came Iacobs sonnes ouer the slayne, and spoyled the cite (because they had defyled their sister) 28 and toke their shepe, oxen, Asses, and what so euer was in the cite and in the londe, 29 and all maner of goodes: All their children and wyues toke they captyue, and spoyled all yt was in the houses. 30 And Iacob sayde vnto Symeon and Leui: Ye haue brought it so to passe, yt I stynke before the inhabiters of this lande, ye Cananites and Pheresites, & I am but a small nombre: Yf they gather them selues now together against me, they shal slaye me, so shal I be destroyed with my house. 31 But they answered: Shulde they the deale with oure sister as with an whoore?
  • Gen 35:19 : 19 So Rachel died, & was buried in the waye towarde Ephrath, which now is called Bethlehe.
  • Gen 49:29-32 : 29 And he commaunded them, and sayde vnto them: I shal be gathered vnto my people, burye me with my fathers in ye caue which is in the felde of Ephron the Hethite, 30 in the dubble caue that lyeth ouer against Mamre in ye lande of Canaa, which Abraha bought with the felde, of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to burye in. 31 There buryed they Abraha & Sara his wife, there buried they Isaac also & Rebecca his wife: & their buried I Lea, 32 in the good of the felde & of the caue therin, which was bought of the Hethites.
  • Gen 50:13 : 13 and caried him to ye lande of Canaan, and buried him in ye dubble caue, that Abraham bought with the felde for a possession to bury in, of Ephron ye Hethite ouer ageynst Mamre.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 24:32
    81%

    32The bones of Ioseph, which the children of Israel had broughte out of Egipte, buried they at Sichem, in the pece of the londe, yt Iacob boughte of the children of Hemor ye father of Sichem for an hundreth pens, and was the enheritaunce of the children of Ioseph.

  • Gen 33:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18Afterwarde came Iacob peaceably vnto the cite of Sichem, which lyeth in ye lande of Canaan, after that he was come agayne out of Mesopotamia, and pitched before the cite,

    19and bought a pece of londe of the children of Hemor ye father of Sichem for an hundreth pens. There pitched he his tent,

  • Gen 50:13
    77%

    13and caried him to ye lande of Canaan, and buried him in ye dubble caue, that Abraham bought with the felde for a possession to bury in, of Ephron ye Hethite ouer ageynst Mamre.

  • Acts 7:15
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    15And Iacob wente downe in to Egipte, and dyed, both he and oure fathers

  • Gen 49:29-32
    4 verses
    76%

    29And he commaunded them, and sayde vnto them: I shal be gathered vnto my people, burye me with my fathers in ye caue which is in the felde of Ephron the Hethite,

    30in the dubble caue that lyeth ouer against Mamre in ye lande of Canaa, which Abraha bought with the felde, of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to burye in.

    31There buryed they Abraha & Sara his wife, there buried they Isaac also & Rebecca his wife: & their buried I Lea,

    32in the good of the felde & of the caue therin, which was bought of the Hethites.

  • Gen 23:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19Then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the dubble caue of the felde, that lyeth ouer before Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the londe of Canaan.

    20So the felde and the caue therin was made sure of the Hethites vnto Abraham, for a possession to bury in.

  • Gen 25:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9And his sonnes Isaac and Ismael buried him in the dubble caue in the felde of Ephron the sonne of Zoar the Hethite, which lyeth ouer before Mamre,

    10in the felde that Abraham bought of the Hethites. There was Abraham buried with Sara his wife.

  • Gen 23:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8And he talked with them, and sayde: Yf it be youre wyll that I burye my coarse by me, heare me the, & speake for me to Ephron the sonne of Zoar,

    9that he maye geue me the dubble caue, which he hath in ye ende of his felde. For a reasonable money let him geue it me, for a possession to burye in amoge you.

  • Acts 7:17
    73%

    17Now wha the tyme of the promes drue nye (which God had sworne vnto Abraha) the people grewe and multiplied in Egipte,

  • Gen 23:15-17
    3 verses
    72%

    15Heare me my lorde: The felde is worth foure hundreth Sycles of syluer: but what is that betwixte me and the? Burye thy deed.

    16Abraham herkened vnto Ephron, and weyed him the money which he had sayde, that the Hethites might heare: namely foure hundreth syluer sycles of currant money amonge marchauntes.

    17Thus Ephrons felde (where in the dubble caue is) which lyeth ouer before Mamre, euen the felde and the caue, was made sure

  • Matt 27:7
    71%

    7Neuertheles they helde a councell, and bought with the a potters felde, for to burye straugers in.

  • Gen 23:13
    71%

    13and talked with Ephron, that the people of the londe might heare, and sayde: Heare me then, Receaue of me the money that I geue the for the felde, and so wyll I burye my deed there.

  • John 4:5
    70%

    5Then came he in to a cite of Samaria, called Sichar, nye vnto ye pece of lode, yt Iacob gaue vnto Ioseph his sonne.

  • Gen 34:10
    69%

    10and dwell with vs, the londe shall be open vnto you, dwell and occupie, and haue youre possessions therin.

  • Gen 23:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4I am a strauger and an indweller amonge you, geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I maye bury my coarse by me.

    5Then the Hethites answered Abraham, and sayde vnto him:

  • Gen 12:6
    69%

    6And whe they were come in to the same londe, he wente thorow, tyll he came vnto the place of Sichem, and vnto the Okegroue of More: for ye Cananites dwelt in ye lode at ye same time.