Genesis 23:1-9 ▼

1 And the life of Sarah is one hundred and twenty-seven years—years of the life of Sarah;

2 and Sarah dies in Kirjath-Arba, which [is] Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham goes to mourn for Sarah, and to lament her.

3 And Abraham rises up from the presence of his dead, and speaks to the sons of Heth, saying,

4 “A sojourner and a settler I [am] with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.”

5 And the sons of Heth answer Abraham, saying to him,

6 “Hear us, my lord; a prince of God [are] you in our midst; in the choice of our burying-places bury your dead: none of our burying-places do we withhold from you, from burying your dead.”

7 And Abraham rises and bows himself to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth,

8 and he speaks with them, saying, “If it is your desire to bury my dead from before me, hear me, and meet for me with Ephron, son of Zoar;

9 and he gives to me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which [is] in the extremity of his field; for full money does he give it to me, in your midst, for a possession of a burying-place.”