Genesis 23:1-20 NASB20 - Bible AI

¹Now [392]Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

²Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham [393]came in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

³Then Abraham arose from mourning before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,

⁴“I am a stranger and a foreign resident among you; give me [394]a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

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

⁶“Hear us, my lord: you are a [395]mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead.”

⁷So Abraham stood up and bowed to the people of the land, the sons of Heth.

⁸And he spoke with them, saying, “If [396]you are willing to let me bury my dead out of my sight, listen to me, and plead with Ephron the son of Zohar for me,

⁹that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he owns, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in [397]your presence for [398]a burial site.”

¹⁰Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham [399]so that the sons of Heth heard, that is, all who entered the gate of his city, saying,

¹¹“No, my lord, listen to me; I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.”

¹²And Abraham bowed before the people of the land.

¹³But he spoke to Ephron [400]so that the people of the land heard, saying, “If you will only please listen to me; I will give the price of the field, accept it from me so that I may bury my dead there.”

¹⁴Then Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

¹⁵“My lord, listen to me: a plot of land worth [401]four hundred shekels of silver—what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

¹⁶Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the [402]presence of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, currency acceptable to a merchant.

¹⁷So Ephron’s field, which was in Machpelah, which faced Mamre, the field and the cave which was in it, and all the trees which were in the field, that were [403]within all the confines of its border, [404]were deeded over

¹⁸to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who entered the gate of his city.

¹⁹After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah 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 [405]were deeded over to Abraham for [406]a burial site by the sons of Heth.