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Genesis 23:15-17
English Standard Version
Genesis 23:15-17
English Standard Version
15 “My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred (A)shekels[a] of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.” 16 Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham (B)weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
17 So (C)the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over
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- Genesis 23:15 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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