In the cave &c.] He repeateth many particulars of this buriall place, to make his sonnes the more mindfull of the Land of Canaan; and to furnish Joseph with more matter of excuse to Pharaoh when he should make report of his request, that it might be entertained without offence; and withall, having beene absent thence by the space of seventeene yeares, and having no written evidences to shew (for they were not in use at that time) he setteth downe the matter the more exactly, that his right to the buriall place might be the better cleared, if any other should lay claime to it, or question, or doubt of his interest in it.