23Genesis 23

1And Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven years.Select Genesis 23:1

2And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.Select Genesis 23:2

3And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying:Select Genesis 23:3

4I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.Select Genesis 23:4

5The children of Heth answered, saying:Select Genesis 23:5

6My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre.Select Genesis 23:6

7Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth:Select Genesis 23:7

8And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.Select Genesis 23:8

9That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a burying place.Select Genesis 23:9

10Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:Select Genesis 23:10

11Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou rather hearken to what I say: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein; in the presence of the children of my people, bury thy dead.Select Genesis 23:11

12Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.Select Genesis 23:12

13And he spoke to Ephron, in the presence of the people: I beseech thee to hear me: I will give money for the field; take it, and so will I bury my dead in it.Select Genesis 23:13

14And Ephron answered:Select Genesis 23:14

15My lord, hear me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth four hundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but what is this? bury thy dead.Select Genesis 23:15

16And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.Select Genesis 23:16

17And the field that before was Ephron's, wherein was the double cave, looking towards Mambre, both it and the cave, and all the trees thereof, in all its limits round about,Select Genesis 23:17

18Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.Select Genesis 23:18

19And so Abraham buried Sara, his wife, in the double cave of the field, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan.Select Genesis 23:19

20And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.Select Genesis 23:20