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14 Ephron said to Abraham, 15 “Hear me, my lord. A field with a value of four hundred silver shekels,[a] what is that between me and you? Bury your dead there.”

16 Abraham accepted Ephron’s terms. He paid Ephron the price that had been mentioned in the hearing of the Hittites, namely, four hundred silver shekels of the current market weight.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 23:15 Four hundred silver shekels are equivalent to about 5 kilograms of silver.

14 Ephron answered Abraham, 15 “Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels[a] of silver,(A) but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

16 Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver,(B) according to the weight current among the merchants.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 23:15 That is, about 10 pounds or about 4.6 kilograms