Genesis 23

1Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.Cross-references: Gen 17:17

2Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.Cross-references: Gen 13:18 · Gen 23:19 · Gen 27:41 · Gen 50:10 · Num 13:22 · Num 20:29 · +20 more

3Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,Cross-references: Gen 10:15 · Gen 23:5 · Gen 23:7 · Gen 25:10 · Gen 27:46 · Gen 49:30 · +2 more

4“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · Gen 17:8 · Gen 47:9 · Gen 49:30 · Gen 50:13 · Lev 25:23 · +12 more

5The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

6“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”Cross-references: Gen 13:2 · Gen 14:14 · Gen 18:12 · Gen 21:22 · Gen 24:18 · Gen 24:35 · +10 more

7Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.Cross-references: Gen 18:2 · Gen 19:1 · Prov 18:24 · Rom 12:17 · Heb 12:14 · 1Pet 3:8

8He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,Cross-references: Gen 25:9 · 1Ki 2:17 · Luke 7:3 · Heb 7:26 · 1John 2:1

9that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me among you as a possession for a burial place.”Cross-references: Rom 12:17 · Rom 13:8

10Now 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,Cross-references: Gen 23:18 · Gen 24:10 · Gen 34:20 · Gen 34:24 · Ruth 4:1 · Job 29:7 · +3 more

11“No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”Cross-references: Gen 23:6 · Gen 23:18 · Num 35:30 · Deut 17:6 · Deut 19:15 · Ruth 4:1 · +8 more

12Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.Cross-references: Gen 18:2 · Gen 19:1 · Gen 23:7

13He 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.”Cross-references: Gen 14:22 · 2Sam 24:24 · Acts 20:35 · Rom 13:8 · Phil 4:5 · Col 4:5 · +1 more

14Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

15“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.”Cross-references: Ex 30:13 · Ex 30:15 · Ezek 45:12

16Abraham 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.Cross-references: Gen 23:15 · Gen 43:21 · Ex 30:13 · Ezra 8:25 · Job 28:15 · Jer 32:9 · +6 more

17So 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 deededCross-references: Gen 23:20 · Gen 25:9 · Gen 49:29 · Gen 50:13 · Ruth 4:7 · Ps 112:5 · +5 more

18to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.Cross-references: Gen 34:20 · Ruth 4:1 · Jer 32:12

19After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · Gen 25:9 · Gen 35:27 · Gen 47:30 · Gen 49:29 · Gen 50:13 · +5 more

20The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.Cross-references: Gen 25:9 · Gen 49:31 · Gen 50:5 · Gen 50:13 · Gen 50:24 · Ruth 4:7 · +3 more