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Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he said to them, “If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Ephron answered Abraham, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams">c</a></sup></span> of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Hebrew <i>sons of Heth</i>; also verses 5, 7, 10, 16, 18, 20<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">a</span> mighty prince</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">shekel</i> was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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