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gate of his enemies. 18 And in thy seede shall all of the fielde: receiue it of me, and I will bury
the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou my dead there. 14 Ephron then answered Abra-
hast obeyed my voyce. 19 Then turned Abraham ham, saying vnto him, 15 My lord, hearken vnto
againe vnto his seruants, and they rose vp and me: ye land is worth foure hundreth shekels of
went together to Beer-sheba: and Abraham dwelt siluer: what is that betweene me and thee? bury
at Beer-sheba. 20 And after these things one tolde therefore thy dead. 16 So Abraham hearkened
Abraham, saying, Beholde Milcah, she hath also vnto Ephron, and Abraham weyed to Ephron the
borne children vnto thy brother Nahor: 21 To wit, siluer, which he had named, in the audience of
Vz his eldest sonne, and Buz his brother, and Ke- the Hittites, euen foure hundreth siluer shekels
muel the father of Aram, 22 And Chesed and Hazo, of currant money among marchants. 17 So the
and Pildash, and Iidlaph, and Bethuel. 23 And fielde of Ephron which was in Machpelah, and
Bethuel begate Rebekah: these eight did Milcah ouer against Mamre, euen the field and the caue
beare to Nahor Abrahams brother. 24 And his that was therein, and all the trees that were in the
concubine called Reumah, she bare also Tebah, fielde, which were in all the borders round about,
and Gahan, and Thahash and Maachah. was made sure 18 Vnto Abraham for a possession,
in ye sight of the Hittites, euen of all that went
23 in at the gates of his citie. 19 And after this,

1 When Sarah was an hundreth twentie and Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the caue of
seuen yeere olde (so long liued she). Then Sarah the fielde of Machpelah ouer against Mamre: the
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dyed in Kiriath-arba: the same is Hebron in the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. 20 Thus the
fielde and the caue, that is therein, was made sure
land of Canaan. and Abraham came to mourne vnto Abraham for a possession of buriall by the
for Sarah and to weepe for her. Then Abraham Hittites.
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rose vp from the sight of his corps, and talked
with the Hittites, saying, I am a stranger, and 24
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a forreiner among you, giue me a possession of 1 Nowe Abraham was olde, and striken in
buriall with you, that I may burie my dead out of yeeres, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in
my sight. Then the Hittites answered Abraham, all things. 2 Therefore Abraham saide vnto his
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saying vnto him, Heare vs, my lorde: thou art eldest seruant of his house, which had the rule
a prince of God among vs: in the chiefest of our ouer all that he had, Put nowe thine hand vnder
sepulchres bury thy dead: none of vs shall forbid my thigh, 3 And I will make thee sweare by ye
thee his sepulchre, but thou mayest bury thy Lord God of the heauen, and God of the earth,
dead therein. 7 Then Abraham stoode vp, and that thou shalt not take a wife vnto my sonne
of the daughters of the Canaanites among who
bowed him selfe before the people of the land I dwel. 4 But thou shalt go vnto my countrey,
of the Hittites. 8 And he communed with them,
saying, If it be your minde, that I shall bury my and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sone
dead out of my sight, heare me, and intreate for Izhak. 5 And the seruant saide to him, What if
the woman will not come with me to this land?
me to Ephron the sonne of Zohar, That he would shall I bring thy sonne againe vnto the lande
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giue me ye caue of Machpelah, which he hath in from whence thou camest? To whom Abraham
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the ende of his field: that he would giue it me for answered, Beware that thou bring not my sonne
as much money as it is worth, for a possession to thither againe. 7 The Lord God of heauen, who
bury in among you. 10 (For Ephron dwelt among tooke me from my fathers house, and from the
the Hittites) Then Ephron the Hittite answered land where I was borne, and that spake vnto me,
Abraham in the audience of all the Hittites that and that sware vnto me, saying, Vnto thy seede
went in at the gates of his citie, saying, 11 No, wil I giue this land, he shall send his Angel before
my Lord, heare me: the fielde giue I thee, and thee, and thou shalt take a wife vnto my sonne
the caue, that therein is, I giue it thee: euen in from thence. Neuertheles if the woman wil not
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the presence of the sonnes of my people giue I it follow thee, then shalt thou bee discharged of
thee, to bury thy dead. 12 Then Abraham bowed this mine othe: onely bring not my sonne thither
himselfe before the people of the land, 13 And againe. 9 Then the seruant put his hand vnder
spake vnto Ephron in the audience of the people the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to
of the countrey, saying, Seeing thou wilt giue him for this matter. 10 So the seruant tooke ten
it, I pray thee, heare me, I will giue the price camels of the camels of his master, and departed: