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14 So Ephron answered Abraham, 15 “Sir,[a] listen to me! The land is worth 400 shekels of silver, but what’s that between us? You may bury your dead.”

16 Abraham agreed with Ephron, so he[b] weighed out to Ephron the money to which he had agreed publicly while the Hittites were listening: 400 shekels of silver at the current merchant rate.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 23:15 Lit. My lord
  2. Genesis 23:16 Lit. Abraham