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Genesis 23:13-15
New English Translation

13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay[a] to you the price[b] of the field. Take it from me so that I may[c] bury my dead there.”

14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 15 “Hear me, my lord. The land is worth[d] 400 pieces of silver,[e] but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 23:13 tn Heb “give.”
  2. Genesis 23:13 tn Heb “silver.”
  3. Genesis 23:13 tn After the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose or result.
  4. Genesis 23:15 tn The word “worth” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  5. Genesis 23:15 sn 400 pieces of silver. The standards for weighing money varied considerably in the ancient Near East, but the generally accepted weight for the shekel is 11.5 grams (0.4 ounce). This makes the weight of silver here 4.6 kilograms, or 160 ounces (about 10 pounds).
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