(saith the LORD) because thou hast done this thing and hast not spared
thy only son, that I will bless thee and multiply thy seed as the stars
of heaven and as the sand upon the sea side. And thy seed shall possess
the gates of his enemies. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice. So turned Abraham
again unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to
Berseba. And Abraham dwelt at Berseba. And it chanced after these
things, that one told Abraham saying: Behold, Milcha she hath also born
children unto thy brother Nachor: Hus his eldest son and Bus his
brother, and Kemuel the father of the Sirians, and Cesed, and Haso, and
Pildas, and Iedlaph, and Bethuel. And Bethuel begat Rebecca. These
eight did Milcha bear to Nachor Abraham's brother. And his concubine
called Rheuma she bare also Tebah, Gaham, Thaas and Maacha.
Chapter .xxiij.
Sara was an hundred and twenty seven years old (for so long lived she)
and then died in a head city called Hebron in the land of Canaan. Then
Abraham came to mourn Sara and to weep for her. And Abraham stood up
from the corpse, and talked with the sons of Heth saying: I am a
stranger and a foreigner among yow, give me a possession to bury in
with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. And the children of
Heth answered Abraham saying unto him: Hear us lord, thou art a prince
of God among us. In the chiefest of our sepulchers bury thy dead: None
of us shall forbid thee his sepulchre, that thou shouldest not bury thy
dead therein. Abraham stood up and bowed himself before the people of
the land the children of Heth. And he communed {comoned} with them
saying: If it be your minds that I shall bury my dead out of my sight,
hear me and speak for me to Ephron the son of Zoar: and let him give me
the double cave which he hath in the end of his field, for as much
money as it is worth, let him give it me in the presence of you, for a
possession to bury in. For Ephron dwelled among the children of Heth.
Then Ephron the Hethite answered Abraham in the audience of the
children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of his city,
saying: Not so, my lord, but hear me: The field give I thee, and the
cave that therein is, give I thee also. And even in the presence of the
sons of my people give I it thee to bury thy dead in. Then Abraham
bowed himself before the people of the land, and spake unto Ephron in
the audience of the people of the country saying: I pray thee hear me,
I will give silver for the field, take it of me, and so will I bury my
dead there. Ephron answered Abraham saying unto him: My lord, hearken
unto me. The land is worth four hundredth sicles of silver: But what is
that betwixt thee and me? bury thy dead. And Abraham hearkened unto
Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of
the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money
among merchants. Thus was the field of Ephron wherein the double cave
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