14 Ephron then answered Abraham, saying unto him,

15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred [a]shekels of silver: what is that between me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

16 So Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named, in the audience of the Hittites, even four hundred silver shekels of current money among merchants.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 23:15 The common shekel is about 20 pence, so then 400 shekels mount to 33 pound 6 shillings and 8 pence after 5 shilling sterling the ounce.

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