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Genesis never says where Joseph’s brothers were buried, and later traditions answer this differently. In Jubilees, the eleven brothers are buried in the cave at Hebron, while Stephen in Acts says all the ancestors were carried to Shechem.
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Jubilees 46:9
Pseudepigrapha
8 Joseph died in the forty-sixth jubilee, in the sixth week, during its second year [2242]. He was buried in the land of Egypt, and all his brothers died after him. 9 Then the king of Egypt went out to fight with the king of Canaan in the forty-seventh jubilee, in the second week, during its second year [2263]. The Israelites brought out all the bones of Jacob’s sons except Joseph’s bones. They buried them in the field, in the double cave in the mountain. 10 Many returned to Egypt but a few of them remained on the mountain of Hebron. Your father Amram remained with them.
Acts 7:16
New Testament
15 So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors, 16 and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem. 17 “But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,
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... For example, Stephen in Acts 7:15-16 indicates that all twelve were laid to rest in Shechem: "He himself [Jacob] died as well as our ancestors [the twelve], and their bodies were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem." The idea that the brothers were buried in Hebron is known from other sources, including all of the individual units in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs except the Testament of Joseph (but see 20:2). ...
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