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because thou hast obeyed my voice.
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So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up
and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
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And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she
hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;
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Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and
Kemuel the father of Aram,
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And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
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And
Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
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And his
concubine, whose name
was
Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
CHAPTER 23
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old:
these were
the years of the life of Sarah.
2
And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same
is
Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to
mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
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And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
4
I
am
a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may
bury my dead out of my sight.
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And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
6
Hear us, my lord: thou
art
a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy
dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
7
And
Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land,
even
to the children of Heth.
8
And
he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight;
hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
9
That he may give me the cave of
Machpelah, which he hath, which
is
in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he
shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
10
And Ephron dwelt among the
children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth,
even
of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
11
Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee,
and the cave that
is
therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee:
bury thy dead.
12
And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
13
And he spake
unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou
wilt give it,
I pray thee,
hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take
it
of me, and I will bury my dead there.
14
And
Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
15
My lord, hearken unto me: the land
is worth
four
hundred shekels of silver; what
is
that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
16
And Abraham
hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the
audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current
money
with the merchant.
17
And the field of Ephron, which
was
in Machpelah, which
was
before Mamre, the field, and
the cave which
was
therein, and all the trees that
were
in the field, that
were
in all the borders round
about, were made sure
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Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth,
before all that went in at the gate of his city.
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And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in
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