Genesis 23:8
Good News Translation
and said, "If you are willing to let me bury my wife here, please ask Ephron son of Zohar

New Revised Standard Version
He said to them, “If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me Ephron son of Zohar,

Contemporary English Version
and replied, "If you are willing to let me bury my wife here, please ask Zohar's son Ephron

New American Bible
and said to them: “If you will allow me room for burial of my dead, listen to me! Intercede for me with Ephron, son of Zohar,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.

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1 Kings 2:17 And he said I pray thee speak to king Solomon (for he cannot deny thee any thing) to give me Abisag, the Sunamitess, to wife.

Luke 7:3,4 And when he had heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the ancients of the Jews, desiring him to come and heal his servant. . . .

Hebrews 7:26 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

1 John 2:1,2 My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just. . . .

Context
The Death and Burial of Sarah
7Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth: 8And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.9That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a burying place.…
Cross References
Genesis 23:7
Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, to wit, the children of Heth:

Genesis 23:9
That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: For as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a burying place.

Genesis 25:9
And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, which was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite, over against Mambre,

Genesis 23:7
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