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WHERE WAS JACOB BURIED?
Genesis 50:13 For his sons carried him (Jacob) 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.(KJV)


Acts 7:15-16 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.(KJV)

Sychem is an area within Canaan. In fact, Jesus' conversation with the Canaanite woman in John 4 was in this area. As for whether it was a cave or a sepulchre, anyone familiar with the Bible would know that caves were frequently used at sepulchres.  Not a contradiction.

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