וְיִתֶּן־לִ֗י אֶת־מְעָרַ֤ת הַמַּכְפֵּלָה֙ אֲשֶׁר־ל֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֖ר בִּקְצֵ֣ה שָׂדֵ֑הוּ בְּכֶ֨סֶף מָלֵ֜א יִתְּנֶ֥נָּה לִ֛י בְּתוֹכְכֶ֖ם לַאֲחֻזַּת־קָֽבֶר׃
upang ibigay niya sa akin ang yungib ng Macpela na kanyang pag-aari, na nasa dulo ng kanyang bukid; sa buong halaga ay ibigay niya ito sa akin sa gitna ninyo bilang pag-aaring libingan.”
On Dreams
[26] To this class belongs also the “double cave” (Gen. 23:9), that pair of precious memories concerned, one with all that has come into being, the other with Him who has made it. These constitute the nurture of the man of worth, for whom all things in the universe are objects of contemplation, and who loves to inquire also concerning the Father who brought them into being.
On the Posterity of Cain and his Exile
[62] But the soul wedded to goodness obtained inhabitants excelling in the virtues, whom the double cave (Gen. 23:9) received in pairs, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Leah and Jacob, these being virtues and their possessors. This Hebron, a treasure-house guarding personal monuments of knowledge and wisdom, is earlier than Zoan and all Egypt. For nature wrought soul elder than body (or Egypt), and virtue elder than vice (or Zoan). for “Zoan” means “Command of evacuation”; and nature determines precedence not by length of time but by worth.