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Sarah's Death and Burial

¹ And ^(F1)Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.² Sarah died in ^(C1)Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham ^(F1)came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.³ Then Abraham rose from before his dead and spoke to the ^(C1)sons of Heth, saying,⁴ "I am ^(C1)a sojourner and a foreign resident among you; ^(C2)give me a ^(C3)possession for a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight."⁵ And the sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,⁶ "Hear us, my lord, you are a ^(F1)(C1)mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our burial sites; none of us will refuse you his burial sites for burying your dead."⁷ So Abraham rose and bowed to the people of the land, the sons of Heth.⁸ And he spoke with them, saying, "If it is your ^(F1)desire for me to bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and meet with ^(C1)Ephron the son of Zohar for me,⁹ that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which belongs to him, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in ^(F1)your presence as a possession for a burial site."¹⁰ Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth, even ^(C1)of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,¹¹ "No, my lord, hear me; ^(C1)I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead."¹² And Abraham bowed before the people of the land.¹³ And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "If you will only please hear me; I will give the silver for the field, accept it from me that I may bury my dead there."¹⁴ Then Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,¹⁵ "My lord, hear me; a piece of land worth ^(F1)four hundred ^(C1)shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? So bury your dead."¹⁶ So Abraham heard Ephron; and Abraham ^(C1)weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the ^(F1)hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, ^(F2)commercial standard.

¹⁷ So ^(C1)Ephron's field, which was in Machpelah, which faced Mamre, the field and the cave which was in it, and all the trees which were in the field, that were ^(F1)within all the confines of its border, ^(F2)were deeded over¹⁸ to Abraham as purchased ^(C1)in the sight of the sons of Heth, before all who came in at the gate of his city.¹⁹ After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field at Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.²⁰ So the field and the cave that is in it ^(F1)were ^(C1)deeded over to Abraham for a possession for a burial site by the sons of Heth.