1Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.

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Genesis 17:17, Genesis 17:17

2Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

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Genesis 23:19, Genesis 23:19, Genesis 13:18, Genesis 13:18, 1 Chronicles 6:57

3Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

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Genesis 10:15, Genesis 10:15, Genesis 23:5, 1 Samuel 26:6, 2 Samuel 23:39

4"I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

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Hebrews 11:9, 1 Chronicles 29:15, Hebrews 11:9, 1 Chronicles 29:15, Genesis 17:8

5The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

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6"Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead."

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Genesis 24:35, Genesis 24:35, Genesis 14:14, Genesis 14:14, Genesis 21:22

7Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

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Genesis 18:2, Romans 12:17, Romans 12:18, Genesis 19:1, 1 Peter 3:8

8He talked 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,

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1 Kings 2:17, 1 John 2:1, 1 John 2:2, Genesis 25:9, Luke 7:3

9that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place."

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Romans 12:17, Romans 13:8, Romans 12:17, Romans 13:8

10Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

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Genesis 34:20, Genesis 34:24, Genesis 34:20, Genesis 34:24, Genesis 23:18

11"No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

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Luke 19:24, Isaiah 32:8, Luke 19:24, Isaiah 32:8, Deuteronomy 19:15

12Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

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Genesis 19:1, Genesis 18:2, Genesis 23:7, Genesis 19:1, Genesis 18:2

13He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

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Acts 20:35, Romans 13:8, Colossians 4:5, Hebrews 13:5, Philippians 4:5

14Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

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15"My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."

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Ezekiel 45:12, Ezekiel 45:12, Exodus 30:13, Exodus 30:15, Exodus 30:13

16Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.

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Zechariah 11:12, Jeremiah 32:9, Zechariah 11:12, Jeremiah 32:9, Ezekiel 45:12

17So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

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Genesis 25:9, Genesis 50:13, Genesis 25:9, Genesis 50:13, Genesis 23:20

18to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

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Jeremiah 32:12, Genesis 34:20, Ruth 4:1, Jeremiah 32:12, Genesis 34:20

19After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

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Genesis 3:19, Genesis 25:9, Genesis 25:10, Genesis 49:29, Genesis 49:32

20The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.

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Ruth 4:7, Ruth 4:10, Jeremiah 32:10, Jeremiah 32:14, Ruth 4:7