Genesis 49 · Verse 32

Genesis 49:32

The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
Genesis 49:32, King James Version

Genesis 49:32 in other translations

BSBThe field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
WEBthe field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”
ASVthe field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.
YLTthe purchase of the field and of the cave which is in it, is from Sons of Heth.'
DARBYThe purchase of the field, and of the cave that is in it, was from the children of Heth.
BBEIn the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth.
WebsterThe purchase of the field and of the cave that is in it, was from the children of Heth.

What does Genesis 49:32 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 49:28-33

Jacob blessed every one according to the blessings God in after-times intended to bestow upon them. He spoke about his burial-place, from a principle of faith in the promise of God, that Canaan should be the inheritance of his seed in due time. When he had finished both his blessing and his charge, and so had finished his testimony, he addressed himself to his dying work. He gathered up his feet into the bed, not…

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Genesis 49:32 in the original Hebrew

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מִקְנֵ֧הmik.Neh[the] livestock ofH4735
הַשָּׂדֶ֛הha.sa.Dehthe fieldH7704
וְהַמְּעָרָ֥הve.ha.me.'a.Rahand the caveH4631
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whichH834
בּ֖וֹbo[is] in it
מֵאֵ֥תme.'Etfrom withH854
בְּנֵי\־be.nei-[the] sons ofH1121
חֵֽת\׃ChetHethH2845

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Genesis 49:32

  • Genesis 23:17-20

    And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

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Context

  • Genesis 49:31

    There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

  • Genesis 49:32

    The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.

  • Genesis 49:33

    And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

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Genesis 49:32 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
La compra del campo y de la cueva que está en él, fué de los hijos de Heth.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
L’acquisition du champ et de la caverne qui y est fut faite des fils de Heth.
German
Elberfelder 1871
das Feld und die Höhle, die darin ist, sind erkauft von den Kindern Heth.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Finitisque mandatis quibus filios instruebat, collegit pedes suos super lectulum, et obiit: appositusque est ad populum suum.