Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Sarah Dies and Abraham Buys
a Burial Ground
1 Sarah lived to be 127 years
old.
2 She died in Hebron in
the land of Canaan, and Abraham
mourned her death.
3 He left the place where his
wife's body was lying, went to the
Hittites, and said,
4 “I am a foreigner
living here among you; sell me some
land, so that I can bury my wife.” note
5 They answered,
6 “Listen to us,
sir. We look upon you as a mighty
leader; bury your wife in the best
grave that we have. Any of us would
be glad to give you a grave, so that
you can bury her.”
7 Then Abraham bowed before
them
8 and said, “If you are willing
to let me bury my wife here, please
ask Ephron son of Zohar
9 to sell me
Machpelah Cave, which is near the
edge of his field. Ask him to sell it to
me for its full price, here in your
presence, so that I can own it as a
burial ground.”
10 Ephron himself was sitting with
the other Hittites at the meeting
place at the city gate; he answered in
the hearing of everyone there,
11 “Listen, sir; I will give you the
whole field and the cave that is in it.
Here in the presence of my own people,
I will give it to you, so that you
can bury your wife.”
12 But Abraham bowed before the
Hittites
13 and said to Ephron, so that
everyone could hear, “May I ask
you, please, to listen. I will buy the
whole field. Accept my payment,
and I will bury my wife there.”
14 Ephron answered,
15 “Sir, land
worth only four hundred pieces of
silver—what is that between us?
Bury your wife in it.”
16 Abraham
agreed and weighed out the amount
that Ephron had mentioned in the
hearing of the people—four hundred
pieces of silver, according to the
standard weights used by the merchants.
17 That is how the property which
had belonged to Ephron at Machpelah
east of Mamre, became Abraham's.
It included the field, the cave
which was in it, and all the trees in
the field up to the edge of the property.
18 It was recognized as Abraham's
property by all the Hittites
who were there at the meeting.
19 Then Abraham buried his wife
Sarah in that cave in the land of Canaan.
20 So the field which had belonged
to the Hittites, and the cave
in it, became the property of Abraham
for a burial ground.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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