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GE-23:1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old:
[these were]
the years of the life of Sarah.
GE-23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same [is] Hebron in
the land of
Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
GE-23:3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake
unto the sons of
Heth, saying,
GE-23:4 I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a
possession of a
buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
GE-23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto
him,
GE-23:6 Hear us, my lord: thou [art] a mighty prince among us:
in the choice
of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from
thee his
sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
GE-23:7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people
of the land,
[even] to the children of Heth.
GE-23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind
that I should
bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and entreat for me to
Ephron the son of
Zohar,
GE-23:9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he
hath, which [is]
in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he
shall give it me
for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
GE-23:10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and
Ephron the Hittite
answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, [even]
of all that
went in at the gate of his city, saying,
GE-23:11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the
cave that [is]
therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my
people give I it
thee: bury thy dead.
GE-23:12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of
the land.
GE-23:13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people
of the land,
saying, But if thou [wilt give it], I pray thee, hear me: I will
give thee
money for the field; take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead
there.
GE-23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
GE-23:15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four
hundred shekels
of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore
thy dead.
GE-23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed
to Ephron the
silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth,
four hundred
shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant.
GE-23:17 And the field of Ephron, which [was] in Machpelah,
which [was]
before Mamre, the field, and the cave which [was] therein, and
all the trees
that [were] in the field, that [were] in all the borders round
about, were
made sure
GE-23:18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the
children of
Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
GE-23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the
cave of the
field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the
land of Canaan.
GE-23:20 And the field, and the cave that [is] therein, were
made sure unto
Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
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