Add parallel Print Page Options

15 “My lord, hear me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver—what is that between me and you? Bury your dead.” 16 Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had named[a] in the hearing of the Hittites:[b] four hundred shekels of silver at the merchants’ current rate.[c] 17 So the field of Ephron which was in the Machpelah, which was near Mamre—the field and the cave which was in it, with all the trees that were in the field, which were within all its surrounding boundaries—passed[d]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 23:16 Or “spoken”
  2. Genesis 23:16 Or “sons of Heth”
  3. Genesis 23:16 Literally “passing to the merchant”
  4. Genesis 23:17 Literally “went up”