1. ANᴅ Sara liued an hundred twentie seuen yeares.
2. And she died in the citie of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: And
Abraham came to mourne, and weepe for her.
3. And after that he was risen vp from the funeral obsequies, he spake to the
children of Heth, saying:
4. I am a stranger and pilgrime among you: geue me the right of a sepulchre with you,
that I may burie my dead.
5. The children of Heth answered, saying:
6. My lord heare vs, thou art a prince of God among vs: in our principal sepulchres
burie thou thy dead: and no man can let thee but that in his owne monument thou mayest burie
thy dead.
7. Abraham rose vp, and adored the people of the land, to wit the children of
Heth:
8. and he said to them: If it please your soule that I burie my dead, heare me, and be
intercessors for me to Ephron the sonne of Seor:
9. that he geue me the duble caue, which he hath in the vttermost part of his field:
for money to the worth therof let him deliuer it to me before you for possession of a sepulchre.
10. And Ephron dwelt in the middest of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to
Abraham in the hearing of al that went in at the gate of the citie, saying:
11. No, it shal not be so, my lord, but thou rather harken to that which I doe say: The
field I deliuer to thee, and the caue that is therin, in the presence of the children of my
people, burie thy dead.
12. Abraham adored before the people of the land.
13. And he spoke to Ephron, his people standing round about: I beseech thee to heare me:
I wil geue money for the field: take it, and so I wil burie my dead in it.
14. And Ephron answered:
15. My lord, heare me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth foure hundred sicles of
siluer: this is the price betwen me and thee: but how much is this? burie thy dead.
16. Which when Abraham had heard, he weyed the money, that Ephron had asked, in the
hearing of the children of Heth, foure hundred sicles of siluer of common currant money.
17. And the field that before time was Ephrons, wherin was the duble caue, looking
towards Mambre, aswel it, as the caue, and al the trees therof in al the lymits therof round
about:
18. was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and
of al that went in at the gate of his citie.
19. And so Abraham buried Sara his wife in the duble caue of the field, that looked
towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan.