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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 23</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//genesis/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/genesis/">Genesis</a> > Genesis 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/22.htm" title="Genesis 22">◄</a> Genesis 23 <a href="../genesis/24.htm" title="Genesis 24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/genesis/23.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/genesis/23.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/genesis/23.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/genesis/23.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/genesis/23.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/genesis/23.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/genesis/23.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Death and Burial of Sarah<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.” <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The Hittites replied to Abraham, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.” <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.” <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.” <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.” <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Ephron answered Abraham, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Listen to me, my lord. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.” <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>sons of Heth</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verses 5, 7, 10, 16, 18, and 20<br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>400 shekels</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 10.1 pounds or 4.6 kilograms of silver; also in verse 16.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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