And he comoned with them saynge: Yf it be youre myndes y^t I shall
bury my deade oute of my sighte/ heare me ãd speke for me to Ephron
the sonne of Zoar: and let him geue me the dubill caue which he hath
in the end of his felde/ for as moch money as it is worth/ let him
geue it me in the presence of you/ for a possession to bury in. For
Hephron dwelled amõge y^e childern of heth.
Than Ephron the Hethite answered Abraham in the audyẽce of the
childern of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of his cyte/
saynge: Not so/ my lorde/ but heare me: The felde geue I the/ and the
caue that therein is/ geue I the also/ And even in the presence of the
sonnes of my people geve I it the to bury thy deede in. Than Abraham
bowed himselfe before the people of the lãde and spake vnto Ephrõ in
the audyence of the people of the contre saynge: I praye the heare me/
I will geue sylver for the felde/ take it of me/ ãd so will I bury my
deed there.
Ephron answered Abrahã saynge vnto him My lorde/ harken vnto me. The
lande is worth iiij. hundreth sycles of syluer: But what is that
betwixte the and me? bury thy deede. And Abraham harkened vnto Ephron
and weyde him the sylver which he had sayde in the audyence of the
sonnes of Heth. Euen .iiij. hũdred syluer sycles of currant money
amonge marchauntes
Thus was the felde of Ephron where in the dubbill caue is before
Mamre: euen the felde & the caue that is therein and all the trees of
the felde which growe in all the borders rounde aboute/ made sure vnto
Abraham for a possession/ in the syghte of the childern of Heth and of
all that went in at the gates of the cyte. And then Abraham buried
Sara his wyfe in the double caue of the felde that lyeth before Mãre/
otherwise called Ebron in the lande of Canaan. And so both the felde
ãd the caue that is therein/ was made vnto Abraham/ a sure possession
to bury in/ of the sonnes of Heth.
¶ The .xxiiij. Chapter
Abraham was olde and stryken in dayes/ and the LORde had blessed him
in all thinges. And he sayde vn to his eldest servaunte of his house
which had the rule over all that he had: Put thy hande vnder my thye
that I maye make the swere by the LORde that is God of heauen and God
of the erth/ that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne/ of the
doughters of the canaanytes/ amonge which I dwell. But shalt goo vnto
my contre and to my kynred/ and there take a wyfe vnto my sonne Isaac.
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