Genesis 23 — Overview

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This chapter treats of the age, death, and funeral of Sarah, and the place of her interment: of her age, Ge 23:1; of her death, Ge 23:2; of the motion Abraham made to the sons of Heth, to obtain a burial place among them, Ge 23:3; of the answer of them to him, giving him leave to bury in any of their sepulchres, Ge 23:5; of a second motion of his to them, to use their interest with Ephron the Hittite, to let him have the cave of Machpelah for the above purpose, Ge 23:7; of Ephron's consent unto it, Ge 23:10; of the purchase Abraham made of it for four hundred shekels of silver, Ge 23:12; and of its being secured unto him, which he interred Sarah his wife, Ge 23:17.

Ver. 1. And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old,....

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