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Genesis 23

About Genesis Genesis tells of creation, the first sin, the flood, and God's promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.SelectedGenesis 23:1Ask

And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.SelectedGenesis 23:2Ask

And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,SelectedGenesis 23:3Ask

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.SelectedGenesis 23:4Ask

And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,SelectedGenesis 23:5Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 23:6Ask

And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.SelectedGenesis 23:7Ask

And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,SelectedGenesis 23:8Ask

That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.SelectedGenesis 23:9Ask

And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,SelectedGenesis 23:10Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 23:11Ask

And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.SelectedGenesis 23:12Ask

And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.SelectedGenesis 23:13Ask

And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,SelectedGenesis 23:14Ask

My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.SelectedGenesis 23:15Ask

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.SelectedGenesis 23:16Ask

And 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 borders round about, were made sureSelectedGenesis 23:17Ask

Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.SelectedGenesis 23:18Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 23:19Ask

And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.SelectedGenesis 23:20Ask

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