# Genesis 23

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/23

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of Sarah’s life.
2. Sarah died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her.
3. Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites.
4. “I am a foreigner and a temporary resident among you,” he said. “Give me property among you for a burial site, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
5. The Hittites answered Abraham,
6. “Listen to us, my lord. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.”
7. Then Abraham rose and bowed down to the people of the land, the Hittites,
8. and he said to them, “If you are willing for me to bury my dead out of my sight, listen to me and ask Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf
9. to give me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me for the full price in your presence as property for a burial site.”
10. Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, all who had come in at the gate of his city:
11. “No, my lord, listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”
12. Abraham bowed down before the people of the land,
13. and he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “If only you will listen to me! I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”
14. Ephron answered Abraham,
15. “My lord, listen to me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver—what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”
16. Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, at the rate current among the merchants.
17. So Ephron’s field in Machpelah, near Mamre—the field with the cave in it and all the trees within the borders of the field all around—passed
18. to Abraham as his property in the presence of the Hittites, all who had come in at the gate of his city.
19. After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
20. So the field and the cave in it passed from the Hittites to Abraham as property for a burial site.

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 22](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/22.md)
[Genesis 24](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/24.md)

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