1And the years of Sarah’s life were one hundred years and twenty years and seven years — the years of Sarah’s life.
2And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
3Then Abraham rose from before his dead, and he spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
4“I am an alien and a resident-foreigner among you. Give me a burial holding among you, that I may bury my dead from before me.”
5And the sons 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 choicest of our tombs; not one of us will withhold his tomb from you for burying your dead.”
7Then Abraham rose and bowed down to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth.
8And he spoke with them, saying, “If it is your wish that I bury my dead from before me, hear me and intercede for me with Ephron son of Zohar,
9that he may give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him, which is at the edge of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your midst as a burial holding.”
10Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth, before all who entered the gate of his city, saying,
11“No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and the cave that is in it — I give it to you. Before the eyes of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
12Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land,
13and he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, “Yet if only you would hear me — I give the price of the field; take it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”
14And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
15“My lord, hear me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver — between me and you, what is that? So bury your dead.”
16And Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth — four hundred shekels of silver at the merchant’s standard.
17So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which faced Mamre — the field and the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, throughout all its surrounding border — passed over,
18passed to Abraham as a purchased possession, before the eyes of the sons of Heth, before all who entered the gate of his city.
19And after this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
20So the field and the cave that was in it were confirmed to Abraham as a burial holding from the sons of Heth.
Open in the interactive reader →Where this passage connects across Scripture — each link typed and reasoned, part of the AIT Bible Nexus Chart.