Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of
Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites,
“I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among
you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
The Hittites answered Abraham, “Hear us, my lord; you are a prince
of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None
of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying
your dead.” Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of
the land. And he said to them, “If you are willing that I should
bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the
son of Zohar, that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he
owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him
give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place.”
Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite
answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in
at the gate of his city, “No, my lord, hear me: I give you the
field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the
sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.” Then Abraham
bowed down before the people of the land. And he said to Ephron in
the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I
give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my
dead there.” Ephron answered Abraham, “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.” Abraham listened to Ephron,
and Abraham 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.
So 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 to
Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all
who went in at the gate of his city. After this, Abraham buried
Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre
(that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. The field and the cave
that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying
place by the Hittites.
