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And Sarah was an hundredandsevenandtwentyyearsold: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
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And Sarahdied in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abrahamcame to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
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And Abraham stood up from before his dead , and spake unto the sons of Heth,saying ,
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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.
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And the children of HethansweredAbraham,saying unto him,
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Hear us , my lord: thou art a mightyprince among us: in the choice of our sepulchresbury thy dead ; noneof us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead .
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And Abraham stood up , and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
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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 the son of Zohar,