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He spoke to them and said, "If it is your wish that I should bury my dead in my vicinity, then listen to me and intercede on my behalf before Ephron, son of Zohar,
Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of all the sons of Heth, who had entered the gate of his city. [The place where all important business deals were made at that time.] He said,
He spoke to Ephron so that the people of the land could hear it and said, "If you wish, I beg you (appeal) to listen to me, I will give you full payment for the field, accept it from me and I will then bury my dead there."
Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out the silver to Ephron, as he had said in the presence of the sons of Heth. 400 shekels [a total of 4.6 kg] of silver in the current currency used by merchants.
The field of Ephron, which is in Machpela, which is before Mamre, the field and the cave that is there, and all the trees that are in the field, that were within its borders all around, were established
Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave in Machpela in the field that lies before Mamre, which (formerly) belonged to Ephron, the son of Zohar, the Hittite,
He commanded and said to them, "I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
in the cave in the field of Machpelah, in front of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a property and burial place.
His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham had bought with the field as a property and burial place from the Hittite Ephron, in front of Mamre.
And the border is drawn from the top of the mountain to the source of Neftoach's water and goes out to the cities on Mount Efron, and the border is drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjat-Jearim [13 km west of Jerusalem].
