Genesis 23

¹And Sara lived an hundred twenty seven years.

²And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: And Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.

³And after that he was risen up from the funeral obsequies, he spake to the children of Heth, saying:

⁴I am a stranger and pilgrim among you: give me the right of a sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead.

⁵The children of Heth answered, saying:

⁶My lord hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: in our principal sepulchres bury thou thy dead: and no man can let thee but that in his own monument thou mayest bury thy dead.

⁷Abraham rose up and adored the people of the land, to wit the children of Heth;

⁸and he said to them: If it please your soul that I bury my dead, hear me, and be intercessors for me to Ephron the son of Seor:

⁹that he give me the double cave, which he hath in the uttermost part of his field: for money to the worth therefore let him deliver it to me before you for possession of a sepulchre.

¹⁰And Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:

¹¹No, it shall not be so, my lord, but thou rather hearken to that which I do say: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein, in the presence of the children of my people, bury thy dead.

¹²Abraham adored before the people of the land.

¹³And he spoke to Ephron, his people standing round about: I beseech thee to hear me: I will give money for the field: take it, and so I will bury my dead in it.

¹⁴And Ephron answered:

¹⁵My lord hear me. The ground which thou desirest is worth four hundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but how much is this? Bury thy dead.

¹⁶Which when Abraham had heard, he weighed the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver of common current money.

¹⁷And the field that before time was Ephron's, wherein was the double cave, looking towards Mambre, as well it, as the cave, and all the trees thereof in all the limits thereof round about,

¹⁸was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.

¹⁹And so Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan.

²⁰And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, of the Children of Heth.