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Genesis 23

The Message Bible MSG

1 Sarah lived 127 years.

2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba, present-day Hebron, in the land of Canaan. Abraham mourned for Sarah and wept.

3 Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites:

4 "I know I'm only an outsider here among you, but sell me a burial plot so that I can bury my dead decently.

5 The Hittites responded,

6 "Why, you're no mere outsider here with us, you're a prince of God! Bury your dead wife in the best of our burial sites. None of us will refuse you a place for burial."

7 Then Abraham got up, bowed respectfully to the people of the land, the Hittites,

8 and said, "If you're serious about helping me give my wife a proper burial, intercede for me with Ephron son of Zohar.

9 Ask him to sell me the cave of Machpelah that he owns, the one at the end of his land. Ask him to sell it to me at its full price for a burial plot, with you as witnesses."

10 Ephron was part of the local Hittite community. Then Ephron the Hittite spoke up, answering Abraham with all the Hittites who were part of the town council listening:

11 "Oh no, my master! I couldn't do that. The field is yours - a gift. I'll give it and the cave to you. With my people as witnesses, I give it to you. Bury your deceased wife."

12 Abraham bowed respectfully before the assembled council

13 and answered Ephron: "Please allow me - I want to pay the price of the land; take my money so that I can go ahead and bury my wife."

14 Then Ephron answered Abraham

15 "If you insist, master. What's four hundred silver shekels between us? Now go ahead and bury your wife."

16 Abraham accepted Ephron's offer and paid out the sum that Ephron had named before the town council of Hittites - four hundred silver shekels at the current exchange rate.

17 That's how Ephron's field next to Mamre - the field, its cave, and all the trees within its borders -

18 became Abraham's property. The town council of Hittites witnessed the transaction.

19 Abraham then proceeded to bury his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah that is next to Mamre, present-day Hebron, in the land of Canaan

20 The field and its cave went from the Hittites into Abraham's possession as a burial plot.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 vixit autem Sarra centum viginti septem annis

2 et mortua est in civitate Arbee quae est Hebron in terra Chanaan venitque Abraham ut plangeret et fleret eam

3 cumque surrexisset ab officio funeris locutus est ad filios Heth dicens

4 advena sum et peregrinus apud vos date mihi ius sepulchri vobiscum ut sepeliam mortuum meu

5 responderuntque filii Heth

6 audi nos domine princeps Dei es apud nos in electis sepulchris nostris sepeli mortuum tuum nullusque prohibere te poterit quin in monumento eius sepelias mortuum tuum

7 surrexit Abraham et adoravit populum terrae filios videlicet Heth

8 dixitque ad eos si placet animae vestrae ut sepeliam mortuum meum audite me et intercedite apud Ephron filium Soor

9 ut det mihi speluncam duplicem quam habet in extrema parte agri sui pecunia digna tradat mihi eam coram vobis in possessionem sepulchri

10 habitabat autem Ephron in medio filiorum Heth responditque ad Abraham cunctis audientibus qui ingrediebantur portam civitatis illius dicens

11 nequaquam ita fiat domine mi sed magis ausculta quod loquor agrum trado tibi et speluncam quae in eo est praesentibus filiis populi mei sepeli mortuum tuum

12 adoravit Abraham coram populo terrae

13 et locutus est ad Ephron circumstante plebe quaeso ut audias me dabo pecuniam pro agro suscipe eam et sic sepeliam mortuum meum in eo

14 respondit Ephro

15 domine mi audi terram quam postulas quadringentis argenti siclis valet istud est pretium inter me et te sed quantum est hoc sepeli mortuum tuum

16 quod cum audisset Abraham adpendit pecuniam quam Ephron postulaverat audientibus filiis Heth quadringentos siclos argenti et probati monetae publicae

17 confirmatusque est ager quondam Ephronis in quo erat spelunca duplex respiciens Mambre tam ipse quam spelunca et omnes arbores eius in cunctis terminis per circuitum

18 Abrahae in possessionem videntibus filiis Heth et cunctis qui intrabant portam civitatis illius

19 atque ita sepelivit Abraham Sarram uxorem suam in spelunca agri duplici qui respiciebat Mambre haec est Hebron in terra Chanaa

20 et confirmatus est ager et antrum quod erat in eo Abrahae in possessionem monumenti a filiis Heth