Genesis Chapter 23

Sarah’s death

23:1 AND Sarah was an hundred and twenty seven years old [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.
23:2 And Sarah died in Kiryat Arba or Qiryat Arba (Hebrew: קִרְיַת־אַרְבַּע, lit. ’Town of the Four) ; now called Hebron Hebrew: חֶבְרוֹן 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 Canaan and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

Purchase of Machpelah

23:3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
23:4 I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
23:6 Hear us, my lord you [are] a mighty prince among us in the choice of our sepulchers | ˈsepəlkər | (British sepulchre)
noun – a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried. — verb [with object] literary lay or bury in or as if in a sepulcher: tomes are soon out of print and sepulchered in the dust of libraries. – serve as a burial place for – Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum ‘burial place’, from sepelire ‘bury’. bury your dead ; none of us shall withhold from you his sepulcher | ˈsepəlkər | (British sepulchre)
noun – a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried. — verb [with object] literary lay or bury in or as if in a sepulcher: tomes are soon out of print and sepulchered in the dust of libraries. – serve as a burial place for – Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum ‘burial place’, from sepelire ‘bury’., but that you may bury your dead.
23:7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, [even] to the children of Heth.
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 entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
23:9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, 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 burying place amongst you.
23:10 And Ephron lived among the children of Heth and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, [even] of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
23:11 No, my lord, hear me the field give I you, and the cave that [is] therein, I give it you; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it you bury your dead.
23:12 And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
23:13 And he spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if you [will give it], please, hear me I will give you money for the field ; take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead there.
23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, 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] that between me and you? bury therefore your dead.
23:16 And Abraham listened to Ephron ; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience 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, current [money ] with the merchant.
23:17 And the field of Ephron, which [was] in Machpelah, 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 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

Sarah’s burial

23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre the same [is] HebronHebrew: חֶבְרוֹן 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 Canaan.
23:20 And the field, and the cave that [is] therein, were made sure to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the sons of Heth.