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Genesis 23:15-17
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Genesis 23:15-17
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Ephron: 15 My lord, listen to me. The property is worth 10 pounds of silver. Surely that is an amount we can agree on. So go, and bury your dead in peace.
16 So Abraham accepted Ephron’s offer, and he weighed out the silver for him in the amount they had agreed upon in the presence of the Hittites—10 pounds of silver, according to the weights among the merchants of that time.
17 So it was that the field of Ephron in Machpelah, east of Mamre, the field with the cave in it and the trees on it all passed
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Genesis 23:15-17
New International Version
Genesis 23:15-17
New International Version
15 “Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels[a] of silver,(A) but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”
16 Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver,(B) according to the weight current among the merchants.(C)
17 So Ephron’s field in Machpelah(D) near Mamre(E)—both the field and the cave in it, and all the trees within the borders of the field—was deeded
Footnotes
- Genesis 23:15 That is, about 10 pounds or about 4.6 kilograms
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