THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Genesis Chapters 1 to 23)

[PaducahLuke]

Genesis 23:10 (WEB)
10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

 

[Pastor Gary]

Genesis 23:11 (WEB) - 11 “No, my lord,” he said to Abraham, “please listen to me. I will give you the field and the cave. Here in the presence of my people, I give it to you. Go and bury your dead.”


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[blueskies]

Genesis 23:12, NASB​

And Abraham bowed before the people of the land.

 

[Cosia]

Genesis 23:13 (WEB)
He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”

 

[Cosia]

Genesis 23:14 (WEB)
Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

 

[Cosia]

Genesis 23:15 (WEB)
“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”

 

[Cosia]

Genesis 23:16 (WEB)
Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

 

[PaducahLuke]

Genesis 23:17 (WEB)

17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded


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[Pastor Gary]

Genesis 23:18 (WEB) - 18 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.


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[Cosia]

Genesis 23:19 (WEB)
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

 

[Cosia]

Genesis 23:20 (WEB)
The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.