Genesis 23:15-17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
15 sir, listen to me! A piece of land worth four hundred shekels[a] of silver—what is that between you and me? Bury your dead!” 16 (A)Abraham accepted Ephron’s terms; he weighed out to him the silver that Ephron had stipulated in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver at the current market value.[b]
17 (B)Thus Ephron’s field in Machpelah, facing Mamre, together with its cave and all the trees anywhere within its limits, was conveyed
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