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,^(A) according to the weight current among the merchants.^(B)

¹⁷ So Ephron’s field in Machpelah^(C) near Mamre^(D)—both the field and the cave in it, and all the trees within the borders of the field—was deeded ¹⁸ to Abraham as his property^(E) in the presence of all the Hittites^(F) who had come to the gate^(G) of the city.