Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version So the field and the cave in it were deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site. New Living Translation So the field and the cave were transferred from the Hittites to Abraham for use as a permanent burial place. English Standard Version The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites. Berean Standard Bible So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site. King James Bible And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth. New King James Version So the field and the cave that is in it were deeded to Abraham by the sons of Heth as property for a burial place. New American Standard Bible So the field and the cave that was in it were deeded over to Abraham for a burial site by the sons of Heth. NASB 1995 So the field and the cave that is in it, were deeded over to Abraham for a burial site by the sons of Heth. NASB 1977 So the field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded over to Abraham for a burial site by the sons of Heth. Amplified Bible The field and the cave in it were deeded over to Abraham by the Hittites as a [permanent] possession and burial place. Christian Standard Bible The field with its cave passed from the Hethites to Abraham as burial property. Holman Christian Standard Bible The field with its cave passed from the Hittites to Abraham as a burial place. American Standard Version And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the children of Heth. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And the field of the cave remained, and the cave which is in it, for Abraham as an inheritance of the tomb which was with the sons of Khyth. Brenton Septuagint Translation So the field and the cave which was in it were made sure to Abraam for possession of a burying place, by the sons of Chet. Contemporary English Version he had bought from the Hittites. Douay-Rheims Bible And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth. Good News Translation So the field which had belonged to the Hittites, and the cave in it, became the property of Abraham for a burial ground. International Standard Version And so the field with its cave was deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site. JPS Tanakh 1917 And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the children of Heth. Literal Standard Version and established are the field, and the cave which [is] in it, to Abraham for a possession of a burying-place, from the sons of Heth. New American Bible Thus the field with its cave was transferred from the Hittites to Abraham as a burial place. NET Bible So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth. New Revised Standard Version The field and the cave that is in it passed from the Hittites into Abraham’s possession as a burying place. New Heart English Bible The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham as a possession for a burial place by the sons of Heth. World English Bible The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth. Young's Literal Translation and established are the field, and the cave which is in it, to Abraham for a possession of a burying-place, from the sons of Heth. Additional Translations ... Context The Death and Burial of Sarah…19After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. 20So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site. Cross References Genesis 10:15 And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, Genesis 23:4 "I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead." Genesis 23:19 After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Jeremiah 32:10 I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales. Treasury of Scripture And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure to Abraham for a possession of a burial plot by the sons of Heth. were. Ruth 4:7-10 Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel… 2 Samuel 24:24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. Jeremiah 32:10,11 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances… for a. Genesis 25:9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre; Genesis 49:31,32 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah… Genesis 50:5,13,24,25 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again…
(20) Were made sure unto Abraham.--For the difficulties connected with St. Stephen's apparent confusion of this transaction with that recorded in Genesis 33:19, see Note on Acts 7:16. Verse 20. - And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the sons of Heth. The palpable discrepancy between the statements of the Hebrew historian in this chapter concerning the patriarchal sepulcher and those of the Christian orator when addressing the Jewish Sanhedrim (Acts 7:16) has been well characterized as praegravis quaedam et perardua, et quorundam judicio inextricabilis quaestio (Pererius). Of course the Gordian knot of difficulty may be very readily cut by boldly asserting that a mistake has been committed somewhere; either by Stephen, the original speaker, under the impulse of emotion confounding the two entirely different stories of Abraham's purchase of Machpelah and Jacob's buying of the field near Shechem (Beds, Clarke, Lange, Kalisch, Alford, and others); or by Luke, the first recorder of the Martyr's Apology, who wrote not the ipsissima verba of the speech, but simply his own recollection of them (Jerome); or by some subsequent transcriber who had tampered with the original text, as, e.g., inserting Αβραὰμ, which Luke and Stephen both had omitted, as the nominative to ὠνήσατο (Beza, Calvin, Bishop Pearce). The Just of these hypotheses would not indeed be fatal to the Inspiration of the record; but the claims of either Luke or Stephen to be authoritative teachers on the subject of religion would be somewhat hard to maintain if it once were admitted that they had blundered on a plain point in their own national history. And yet it is doubtful if any of the proposed solutions of the problem is perfectly satisfactory; such as (1) that the two purchases of Abraham and Jacob are here intentionally, for the sake of brevity, compressed into one account (Bengel, Pererius, Willet, Hughes); or (2) that Abraham bought two graves, one at Hebron of Ephron the Hittite, as recorded by Moses, and another at Shechem of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem (Words. worth); or (3) that the words "which Abraham bought for a sum of money" should be regarded as a parenthesis, and the sentence read as intimating that Jacob and the fathers were carried over into Shechem, and (afterwards) by the sons of Hamor the lather of Shechem interred in Abraham's sepulcher at Hebron (Cajetan). Obvious difficulties attach to each of them; but the facts shine out clear enough in spite of the encompassing obscurity, viz., that Abraham bought a tomb at Hebron, in which first the dust of Sarah was deposited, and to which afterwards the bodies of himself, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah were consigned, while Joseph and the twelve patriarchs, who all died in Egypt, were brought over to the promised land and buried in Jacob's field at Shechem. . . . |
   
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