⁹ Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses^(A) that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.

¹⁰ I signed and sealed the deed,^(A) had it witnessed,^(B) and weighed out the silver on the scales. ¹¹ I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions, as well as the unsealed copy— ¹² and I gave this deed to Baruch^(C) son of Neriah,^(D) the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel and of the witnesses who had signed the deed and of all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.

¹⁶ Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver,^(A) according to the weight current among the merchants.^(B)

¹⁷ So Ephron’s field in Machpelah^(C) near Mamre^(D)—both the field and the cave in it, and all the trees within the borders of the field—was deeded ¹⁸ to Abraham as his property^(E) in the presence of all the Hittites^(F) who had come to the gate^(G) of the city.