⁹ Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to ^(A)Chilion and to Mahlon.

^10 (A)I signed the deed, ^(B)sealed it, ^(C)got witnesses, and ^(D)weighed the money on scales. ¹¹ Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions and the open copy. ¹² And I gave the deed of purchase to ^(E)Baruch the son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my cousin, in the presence of ^(F)the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in ^(G)the court of the guard.

¹⁶ Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham ^(A)weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.

¹⁷ So ^(B)the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over ¹⁸ to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.