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Genesis 23:15-17
Modern English Version
Genesis 23:15-17
Modern English Version
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.
17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field and the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field that were within all the surrounding borders were deeded
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- Genesis 23:15 About 10 pounds, or 4.6 kilograms.
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