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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Genesis 23 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/genesis/23.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../topmenuchap/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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</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 class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div align="center"><p class="hebheading">חיי שרה</p></div><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.</div> <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Sarah died in Kiriatharba—the same is Hebron—in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke unto the children of Heth, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>‘I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>‘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.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he spoke 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, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>‘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.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he spoke unto Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying: ‘But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me: I will give the price of the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>‘My lord, hearken unto me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So 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 border thereof round about, were made sure <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the children of Heth.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/genesis/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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