Genesis 23:1-9 ▼

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.