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1Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years; this was the length of Sarah’s life.
2And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.[#v 19; Gen 13.18; Josh 14.15]
3Abraham rose up from beside his dead and said to the Hittites,
4“I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”[#1 Chr 29.15; Ps 105.12; Heb 11.9, 13]
5The Hittites answered Abraham,
6“Hear us, my lord; you are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places; none of us will withhold from you any burial ground for burying your dead.”[#Gen 14.14; 24.35]
7Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.
8He said to them, “If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron son of Zohar,[#Gen 25.9]
9so 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 a possession for a burying place.”
10Now 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,[#Gen 34.20, 24; Ruth 4.4]
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 my people I give it to you; bury your dead.”[#2 Sam 24.21–24]
12Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
13He said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “If you only will listen to me! I will give the price of the field; accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”
14Ephron answered Abraham,
15“My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver—what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”[#Ex 30.13; Ezek 45.12]
16Abraham agreed with 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.[#Jer 32.9; Zech 11.12]
17So 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, passed[#Gen 25.9; 49.30–32; 50.13; Acts 7.16]
18to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, in the presence of all who went in at the gate of his city.
19After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah facing Mamre, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan.
20The field and the cave that is in it passed from the Hittites into Abraham’s possession as a burying place.