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14 Then Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 15 “My lord, listen to me. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver.[a] What is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

16 Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron four hundred shekels of silver, the price that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, according to the standard commercial measure.

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  1. Genesis 23:15 About 10 pounds, or 4.6 kilograms.