Genesis 23:9

9. Machpelah This is to be regarded as a proper name applied both to the cave and to the field in which it was located . Comp . Genesis 23:17; Genesis 23:19. The Septuagint and Vulgate render it as an adjective the double cave; and perhaps two compartments or two entrances into the cave may have occasioned the name Machpelah, which is derived from כפל , caphal, to double. Gesenius, however, gives this root the sense of to divide, and to Machpelah the sense of portion, part, lot. There is little or no doubt that this important cave is now covered by the Mosque of Hebron, of which a cut is given herewith. It has been kept hermetically sealed for ages and since the Mohammedans possesed it, no Christian has been permitted inside the mosque except the Prince of Wales and his attendants, who in 1862, after much effort and diplomacy, were allowed to go in and look upon the cenotaphs which are supposed to stand above the several tombs. Into the cave, of course, they could not enter, and it is believed that no one has entered it for more than a thousand years. See the account of the prince’s visit, and a plan of the interior of the mosque, in Stanley’s History of the Jewish Church, vol. i, Appendix 2.

For as much money as it is worth Hebrews, for full money. Abraham will have a complete bargain; no gift, no half-price, no misunderstanding, from which any after strife might come.