Genesis 23:1-11 ▼

1 Sara was an hudreth and seuen and twentie yere olde (so long liued she.)

2 And Sara dyed in Ciriath arba, the same is Hebron, in the lande of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourne for Sara, and to weepe for her.

3 And Abraham stoode vp fro the sight of his corse, and talked with the sonnes of Heth, saying:

4 I am a straunger and a foriner amongest you: geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my corse out of my sight.

5 And the chyldren of Heth aunswered Abraham, saying vnto hym:

6 Heare vs my Lorde, thou art a prince of God amongest vs, in the chiefest of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of vs shall forbyd thee his sepulchre, but thou mayest bury thy dead therin.

7 Abraham stoode vp and bowed hym selfe before the people of the lande, that is, the chyldren of Heth.

8 And he communed with them, saying: If it be your mynde that I shal bury my dead out of my sight, heare me, and speake for me to Ephron the sonne of Sohar,

9 That he may geue me the caue of Machpelah, whiche he hath in the ende of his fielde: but for as much money as it is worth shall he geue it me, for a possession to bury in amongest you.

10 (For Ephron dwelleth amongest the chyldren of Heth) and Ephron the Hethite aunswered Abraham in the audience of the chyldren of Heth, and of all that went in at the gates of his citie, saying:

11 Not so my Lord, heare me: the fielde geue I thee, and the caue that therin is geue I thee also, in the presence of the sonnes of my people geue I it thee, burye thy dead.