Genesis Chapter 23

 Sarah’s death

23:1 AND Sarahשָׂרָה
Transliteration:śārâ Pronunciation:saw-raw’ proper feminine noun meaning “noblewoman”, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. For more info click here lived to be hundred and twenty seven years old this was the length of Sarahשָׂרָה
Transliteration:śārâ Pronunciation:saw-raw’ proper feminine noun meaning “noblewoman”, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. For more info click here’s life.
23:2 And Sarahשָׂרָה
Transliteration:śārâ Pronunciation:saw-raw’ proper feminine noun meaning “noblewoman”, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. For more info click here died in Kiryat Arba קִרְיַת־אַרְבַּע
or Qiryat Arba lit. ’Town of the Four ; now called Hebronחֶבְרוֹן
Ḥevrōn is a Palestinian city in the southern West Bank, 19 mi south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judaean Mountains, it lies 3,050 ft above sea level.The city is often considered one of the four holy cities in Judaism as well as in Islam. in the land of Canaanכְּנַעַן
Transliteration:kᵊnaʿan – Pronunciation:ken-ah’-an Canaan = “lowland” Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him:—Canaan, merchant, traffic For more info click here and Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here came to mourn for Sarahשָׂרָה
Transliteration:śārâ Pronunciation:saw-raw’ proper feminine noun meaning “noblewoman”, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. For more info click here, and to weep for her.

Purchase of Machpelah

23:3 And Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here stood up from beside his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth (meaning terror), saying,
23:4 I [am] an alien and a foreigner among you grant me property among you for a burial site, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
23:5 And the sons of Heth answered Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here, saying to him,
23:6 Hear us, my lord you [are] a prince of Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here among us in the choicest of our burial sites bury your dead ; none of us would withhold his burial site from you for burying your dead.
23:7 Then Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here stood up, and bowed to the sons of Heth.
23:8 And he spoke to them, saying, If it is your desireנֶפֶשׁ
Transliteration: nep̄eš Pronunciation:neh’-fesh feminine noun Meaning: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion For more info click here that I should bury my dead out of my sight ; hear me, and ask Ephron (meaning fawn-like) the son of Zohar,
23:9 to grant me the Cave of Machpelah (meaning double or portion), which he owns,  the one on the end of his field ; he should sale it to me for the full value, among you,  then I will have a burial site of my own .
23:10 Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here in the hearing of the sons of Heth, of all who had come to the gate of his city, saying,
23:11 No, my lord, listen to me! I have given you the field, and the cave that [is] in it, I have given it to you; In the view of the sons of my people I have given it to you; bury your dead.
23:12 So Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here bowed down to the people of the land.
23:13 And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, If you only will listen to me! I will give the price of the field; accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead.
23:14 And Ephron answered Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here, saying to him,
23:15 My lord, listen to me the land [is worth] four hundred shekels Shekel or sheqel (Hebrew: שקל, plural Hebrew: שקלים sheqalim or shekels, is an ancient Mesopotamian coin, usually of silver. A shekel was first a unit of weight—very roughly 11 grams (0.35 ozt)—and became currency in ancient Tyre and ancient Carthage and then in ancient Israel under the Maccabees. of silver ; what [is it] between me and you? so bury your dead.
23:16 And Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here listened to Ephron ; and Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here weighed out to Ephron the price, that he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels Shekel or sheqel (Hebrew: שקל, plural Hebrew: שקלים sheqalim or shekels, is an ancient Mesopotamian coin, usually of silver. A shekel was first a unit of weight—very roughly 11 grams (0.35 ozt)—and became currency in ancient Tyre and ancient Carthage and then in ancient Israel under the Maccabees. of silver, weight accepted among merchants (10 pounds).
23:17 And Ephron’s field, that [was] in Machpelah, facing Mamre, the field, and the cave within it, and all the trees in the field, within all the its borders around it, were confirmed
23:18 as Abraham‘sאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here as his possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, among all that went in at the gate of his city.

Sarah’s burial

23:19 And afterwards, Abrahamאַבְרָהָם
/ˈeɪbrəhæm, -həm/; ‎‎, Modern: ʾAvraham, As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means “High Father” – “av” (אב) “father”, “ram” (רם) “high” – with the “ha” (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. For more info click here buried Sarahשָׂרָה
Transliteration:śārâ Pronunciation:saw-raw’ proper feminine noun meaning “noblewoman”, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. For more info click here his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah facing Mamre that [is] Hebronחֶבְרוֹן
Ḥevrōn is a Palestinian city in the southern West Bank, 19 mi south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judaean Mountains, it lies 3,050 ft above sea level.The city is often considered one of the four holy cities in Judaism as well as in Islam. in the land of Canaanכְּנַעַן
Transliteration:kᵊnaʿan – Pronunciation:ken-ah’-an Canaan = “lowland” Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him:— Canaan, merchant, traffic For more info click here.
23:20 The field and its cave was purchased by Abraham from the sons of Heth as property for a burial site .