23:1 (i) And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.
23:2 And Sarah died in Kiryat-Arba (city of four); the same [is] Hevron in eretz Kenaan: and Avraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
23:3 And Avraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto banim Het, saying,
23:4 I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
23:5 And the children of Het answered Avraham, saying unto him,
23:6 Hear us, my adon: thou [art] a mighty prince among us: in the choice of kevareinu (tomb) bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his kever (tomb), but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
23:7 And Avraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, [even] to the children of Het.
23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron Ben Tzochar,
23:9 That he may give me the cave of Makhpelah, which he hath, which [is] in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
23:10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Het: and Ephron the Hittite answered Avraham in the audience of the children of Het, [even] of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
23:11 Nay, my adon, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that [is] therein, I give it thee; in the presence of banim my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
23:12 And Avraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
23:13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou [wilt give it], I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead there.
23:14 And Ephron answered Avraham, saying unto him,
23:15 My adon, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
23:16 And Avraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Avraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of banim Het, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant.
23:17 (ii) And the field of Ephron, which [was] in Makhpelah, which [was] before Mamre, the field, and the cave which [was] therein, and all the trees that [were] in the field, that [were] in all the borders round about, were made sure
23:18 Unto Avraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Het, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
23:19 And after this, Avraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Makhpelah before Mamre: the same [is] Hevron in eretz Kenaan.
23:20 And the field, and the cave that [is] therein, were made sure unto Avraham for a possession of a buryingplace by banim Het.