where was abraham buried?
Cave of the Patriarchs
entailment
 Rutherford 's burial was delayed for five months due to legal proceedings arising from his desire to be buried at Beth Sarim , which he had previously expressed to three close advisers from Brooklyn headquarters . According to Consolation , " Judge Rutherford looked for the early triumph of ' the King of the East ' , Christ Jesus , now leading the host of heaven , and he desired to be buried at dawn facing the rising sun , in an isolated part of the ground which would be administered by the princes , who should return from their graves . " Based on his claims that resurrected biblical characters would live at Beth Sarim , Rutherford concluded that it was appropriate that his bones be buried on the property . 

entailment
 According to local tradition , the graves of Isaac and Rebekah , along with the graves of Abraham and Sarah and Jacob and Leah , are in the Cave of the Patriarchs . 

neutral
 Burial ( 38 – 40 ) , burial site ( John 19 : 31 – 42 ) 

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 William Cooke Taylor ( 1838 ) describes the biblical parcel of ground Jacob gave to Joseph as situated on plain of Mukhna , and identifies the tomb as an oriental weli structure at the entrance to the valley of Nablus , to the right near the base of Mt Ebal . The sarcophagus , he suggests , lies underneath or somewhere else in the vicinity of this plain , and comments : 

contradiction
 Probably unknown to the reburial crew , the headstones on all the graves , previously facing to the east , had been turned to face the West Gate in 1864 . The crew digging up Poe 's remains had difficulty finding the right body : they first exhumed a 19 @-@ year @-@ old Maryland militiaman , Philip Mosher , Jr . When they correctly located Poe , they opened his coffin and one witness noted : " The skull was in excellent condition — the shape of the forehead , one of Poe 's striking features , was easily discerned . " 
