Genesis 23

CLV(i) 1 And coming is the life of Sarah to be a hundred and twenty seven years--the years of the life of Sarah. 2 And dying is Sarah in the town of Arba, in the vale. (It is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.) And coming is Abraham to wail over Sarah and to lament for her. 3 And rising is Abraham from over the face of his dead. And speaking is he to the sons of Heth, saying, 4 A sojourner and a settler am I with you. Give me a holding for a tomb with you, and I will entomb my dead from my face. 5 And the sons of Heth are answering Abraham, saying, "No!" 6 Hear us, my lord! A prince of the Elohim are you in our midst. In the choice of our tombs entomb your dead. Not a man of us will forbid the use of his tomb from you to entomb your dead there. 7 And rising is Abraham and bowing down to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth. 8 And speaking is Abraham with them, saying, "Should it forsooth, please your soul to entomb my dead from my face, hear me, and intercede for me with Ephron, the son of Zohar, the Hittite, 9 that he shall give to me the double cave which is his, which is at the end of his field. For silver, in full, shall he give it to me for a holding for a tomb in your midst. 10 And Ephron is sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth. And answering is Ephron, the Hittite, Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, to all entering the gateway of his city, saying, 11 No, my lord! Hear me! The field I give to you. And the cave which is in it, to you I give it. Before the eyes of the sons of all my people I give it to you. Entomb your dead. 12 And bowing down is Abraham before the people of the land. 13 And speaking is he to Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, "Yea, should you be for me, hear me! Give will I silver for the field. Take it from me and I will entomb my dead there. 14 And answering is Ephron Abraham, saying, 15 No lord! Hear me. The land is four hundred shekels of silver. What is that between me and you? Your dead entomb. 16 And hearkening is Abraham to Ephron. And weighing is Abraham for Ephron the silver of which he spoke in the ears of the sons of Heth, for hundred shekels of silver, passing with the merchant. 17 And confirmed is the field of Ephron in which is the double cave, which is adjoining Mamre, the field and the cave which is in it, and all the trees which are in the field, which are in all its boundary around, 18 to Abraham by acquisition, before the eyes of the sons of Heth to all entering the gateway of his city. 19 And afterward Abraham entombs Sarah, his wife, at the double cave of the field adjoining Mamre. (It is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.. 20 And confirmed is the field and the cave which is in it to Abraham for a holding for a tomb from the sons of Heth.