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Gen 23:4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
buryingplace
Cf. Genesis 33:19; 50:13; Joshua 24:32; Acts 7:15, 16. A discrepancy in these statements has been fancied. It disappears entirely before the natural supposition that in the interval of about eighty years between the purchase by Abraham of the family sepulchre (Genesis 23:4-20) and Jacob's purchase (Genesis 33:19), the descendants of Hamor (or "Emmor," Acts 7:15, 16) had resumed possession of the field in which the burial-cave was situated. Instead of asserting an ancient title by inheritance, Jacob repurchased the field. Heth was the common ancestor.
Gen 23:15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
shekels
One shekel = 2s.9d., or 65 cents [In 1917]; also v. 16.
Gen 23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Scofield Genesis 23:4, note above.
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