Where was Jacob buried?
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This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

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Jacob was buried at Machpelah.

Genesis 50:13 View context

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Jacob was buried at Shechem.

Acts 7:15-16 View context

So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor [the father] of Sychem.

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