Genesis 23:13-20 ▼

13 and said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “Listen to me, if you please. Let me pay the price of the field. Accept it from me, and let me bury my dead there.”

14 Ephron answered Abraham and said to him,

15 “My lord, listen to me. Land worth four hundred shekels of silver —what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

16 Abraham agreed with Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver that he had agreed to in the hearing of the Hethites: four hundred standard shekels of silver.

17 So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre—the field with its cave and all the trees anywhere within the boundaries of the field—became

18 Abraham’s possession in the sight of all the Hethites who came to the gate of his city.

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.

20 The field with its cave passed from the Hethites to Abraham as burial property.