Where did they bury Jacob?

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Ge 50:

12 Jacob’s sons did as he had charged them. 13 They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

Abraham bought a cave [M1] at Machpelah in the field near Mamre from Ephron the Hittite. Jacob's sons buried Jacob there.

Jos 24:

32 The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

Jacob bought a plot of land [S1] at Shechem from the sons of Hamor. They buried Joseph's bones there.

Just before Stephen was stoned, he mentioned about the bodies of the patriarchs in Acts 7:

15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers, 16 Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.

Abraham bought a place [S2] in Shechem from the sons of Hamor. The patriarchs' bodies were buried in a tomb in Shechem.

Was S1=S2?

I think so. Stephen, in his summary statement, attributed Jacob's purchase to Abraham. Stephen wasn't being precisely accurate. It was his simplified summary statement of Jewish history.

Did they bury Jacob in M1 or S1?

Joseph buried the embalmed body of Jacob in M1. Centuries later, Joshua buried the bones of Joseph in S1. Perhaps after that, the bones of Jacob were transferred from M1 to S1. Again, Stephen was making a broad summary before he died. It wasn't historically accurate in all the details.

See also

• Abraham bought a tomb from the sons of Hamor?