32 Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt,(A) were buried at Shechem in the parcel of land Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.[a](B) It was an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

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  1. 24:32 Lit a hundred qesitahs

32 And Joseph’s bones,(A) which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt,(B) were buried at Shechem in the tract of land(C) that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver[a] from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.

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  1. Joshua 24:32 Hebrew hundred kesitahs; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.

so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property[a] that Jacob(A) had given his son Joseph.(B)

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  1. 4:5 Lit piece of land

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.(A)

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