Then Ephron the Hethite answered Abraham in the audience
of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of
his city, saying: Not so, my lord, but hear me: The field give I
thee, and the cave that therein is, give I thee also. And even in
the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee to bury thy
dead in. Then Abraham bowed himself before the people of the land,
and spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the country
saying: I pray thee hear me, I will give silver for the field,
take it of me, and so will I bury my dead there. Ephron answered
Abraham saying unto him: My lord, hearken unto me. The land is
worth four hundredth sicles of silver: But what is that betwixt
thee and me? bury thy dead. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and
weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the
sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money
among merchants. Thus was the field of Ephron wherein the double
cave is before Mamre: even the field and the cave that is therein
and all the trees of the field which grow in all the borders round
about, made sure unto Abraham for a possession, in the sight of
the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of the
city.
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