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23:1 Sarah’s death and burial
23 Sarah went on to be 127 years old 2 when she died in the city of Kiriat-Arba (now called Hebron) in the Canaan region. Abraham went in by her bed to weep and mourn for her.
3 After a time, Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and he spoke to Het’s sons, requesting, 4 “I’m a foreigner and just staying among you. Give me property for a burial place on your land so that I can bury my dead wife.”[ref]
5 Het’s sons replied to Abraham, telling him, 6 “My master, listen to us. You’re a mighty prince among us. Go ahead and bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places. We’ve all agreed not to prevent you from burying your dead in any of our cemeteries.”
7 Then Abraham stood and bowed to the Het’s sons who were the owners of the land, 8 and asked them, “Since you’re all allowing me to bury my dead, listen to me and intercede for me with Zohar’s son Efron, 9 so that he’ll sell me Machpelah’s cave which belongs to him and which is at the end of his field. I’ll pay full price if he’ll give it to me to use as a burial place.”
10 Now Efron (the Hittite) was sitting there among Het’s sons, so he responded to Abraham while the other land-owners were listening, along with everyone else at the city gate, 11 “No, my master. Listen to me: I’ll give you the field and the cave that’s in it. I give it to you in front of all these others, then you can bury your dead.”
12 Then Abraham bowed before the people of the land, 13 and he told Efron while all the others were listening, “But if you would, please listen to me. I’ll pay the value of the field. Accept it from me, then I’ll bury my dead there.”
14 Efron responded to Abraham, 15 “My master, listen to me. That land’s worth 400 shekels of silver, but that’s nothing between me and you. Just go ahead and bury your dead.” 16 So Abraham accepted Efron’s words and weighed out for Efron the price that he had mentioned in the hearing of Het’s sons: 400 shekels of silver (the currency among the merchants).
17 So Efron’s field that was in Machpelah which faced Mamre (including the field and the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field that was within all of its surrounding borders) was deeded 18 to Abraham as the new owner as witnessed by Het’s son and everyone else who had come to the city gate. 19 Then after that, Abraham laid the body of his wife Sarah to rest in the cave in Machpelah’s field facing Mamre (also called Hebron, in the Canaan region). 20 So the field was deeded as property to Abraham by Het’s sons, including the cave in it for a burial place.
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