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Genesis 23:15-17
New Catholic Bible
Genesis 23:15-17
New Catholic Bible
15 “Hear me, my lord. A field with a value of four hundred silver shekels,[a] what is that between me and you? Bury your dead there.”
16 Abraham accepted Ephron’s terms. He paid Ephron the price that had been mentioned in the hearing of the Hittites, namely, four hundred silver shekels of the current market weight.
17 The field of Ephron was at Machpelah facing Mamre. The field and the cave found there and all the trees in the field and within the boundaries of the field,
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- Genesis 23:15 Four hundred silver shekels are equivalent to about 5 kilograms of silver.