Genesis 23 — WEBBE
23Verse 1Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.Verse 2Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.Verse 3Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,Verse 4“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”Verse 5The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,Verse 6“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God amongst us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”Verse 7Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.Verse 8He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,Verse 9that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me amongst you as a possession for a burial place.”Verse 10Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,Verse 11“No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”Verse 12Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.Verse 13He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”Verse 14Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,Verse 15“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver+between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”Verse 16Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.Verse 17So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deededVerse 18to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.Verse 19After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.Verse 20The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.