Thematic Bible
Genesis 23:1 (show verse)
And {Sarah lived} one hundred and twenty-seven years; [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.
Genesis 23:2 (show verse)
And Sarah died in Kiriath Arba; that [is] Hebron, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 23:3 (show verse)
And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. And Abraham rose up from his dead, and he spoke to the Hittites [and] said,
Genesis 23:4 (show verse)
"I [am] a stranger and an alien among you; give to me {my own burial site} among you so that I may bury my dead from before me.
Genesis 23:5 (show verse)
And the Hittites answered Abraham [and] said to him,
Genesis 23:6 (show verse)
"Hear us, my lord, you [are] a mighty prince in our midst. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial sites. None of us {will withhold his burial site} from you [for] burying your dead."
Genesis 23:7 (show verse)
And Abraham rose up and bowed to the people of the land, to the Hittites.
Genesis 23:8 (show verse)
And he spoke with them, saying, "{If you are willing} [that] I bury my dead from before me, hear me and intercede for me with Ephron the son of Zohar,
Genesis 23:9 (show verse)
that he may sell to me the cave of Machpelah which {belongs to him}, which [is] at the end of his field. At full value let him sell [it] to me in your midst as {a burial site}."
Genesis 23:10 (show verse)
Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites with respect to all [who were] entering the gate of his city, [and] said,
Genesis 23:11 (show verse)
"No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field and the cave which [is] in it, I [also] give it to you in the sight of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
Genesis 23:12 (show verse)
And Abraham bowed before the people of the land.
Genesis 23:13 (show verse)
And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "{If only you will hear me}--I give the price of the field. Take [it] from me that I may bury my dead there."
Genesis 23:14 (show verse)
And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him
Genesis 23:15 (show verse)
"My lord, hear me. A [piece of] land [worth] four hundred shekels of silver--what [is] that between me and you? Bury your dead."
Genesis 23:16 (show verse)
Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver {at the merchants' current rate}.
Genesis 23:17 (show verse)
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}
Genesis 23:18 (show verse)
to Abraham as a property in the presence of the Hittites, with respect to all [who were] entering the gate of his city.
Genesis 23:19 (show verse)
And thus afterward Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah near Mamre; that [is] Hebron, in the land of Canaan
Genesis 23:20 (show verse)
And the field and the cave which [was] in it {passed} to Abraham as {a burial site} from the Hittites.