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# Genesis 23 (New King James Version)
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Sarah's Death and Burial
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##### Chapter 23
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###### 1 Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; _these were_ the years of the life of Sarah.
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###### 2 So Sarah died in Kirjath Arba (that _is,_ Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
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###### 3 Then Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
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###### 4 "I _am_ a foreigner and a visitor among you. Give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
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###### 5 And the sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
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###### 6 "Hear us, my lord: You _are_ a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places. None of us will withhold from you his burial place, that you may bury your dead."
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###### 7 Then Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people of the land, the sons of Heth.
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###### 8 And he spoke with them, saying, "If it is your wish that I bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and meet with Ephron the son of Zohar for me,
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###### 9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he has, which _is_ at the end of his field. Let him give it to me at the full price, as property for a burial place among you."
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###### 10 Now Ephron dwelt among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the presence of the sons of Heth, all who entered at the gate of his city, saying,
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###### 11 "No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field and the cave that _is_ in it; I give it to you in the presence of the sons of my people. I give it to you. Bury your dead!"
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###### 12 Then Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land;
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###### 13 and he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "If you _will give it,_ please hear me. I will give you money for the field; take _it_ from me and I will bury my dead there."
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###### 14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
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###### 15 "My lord, listen to me; the land _is worth_ four hundred shekels of silver. What _is_ that between you and me? So bury your dead."
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###### 16 And Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out the silver for Ephron which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, currency of the merchants.
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###### 17 So the field of Ephron which _was_ in Machpelah, which _was_ before Mamre, the field and the cave which _was_ in it, and all the trees that _were_ in the field, which _were_ within all the surrounding borders, were deeded
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###### 18 to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
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###### 19 And 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.
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###### 20 So the field and the cave that _is_ in it were deeded to Abraham by the sons of Heth as property for a burial place.
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