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1 Vala pedig Sárának élete száz huszonhét esztendõ. [Ezek] Sára életének esztendei.

2 És meghala Sára Kirját-Arbában azaz Hebronban a Kanaán földén, és beméne Ábrahám, hogy gyászolja Sárát és sirassa õt.

3 Felkele azután Ábrahám az õ halottja elõl, és szóla a Khéth fiainak, mondván:

4 Idegen és jövevény vagyok közöttetek: Adjatok nékem temetésre való örökséget ti nálatok, hadd temessem el az én halottamat én elõlem.

5 Felelének pedig a Khéth fiai Ábrahámnak, mondván õnéki:

6 Hallgass meg minket uram: Istentõl való fejedelem vagy te mi közöttünk, a mi temetõhelyeink közûl a mely legtisztességesebb, abba temesd el a te halottadat, közûlünk senki sem tiltja meg tõled az õ temetõhelyét, hogy eltemethesd a te halottadat.

7 És felkele Ábrahám, és meghajtá magát a földnek népe elõtt, a Khéth fiai elõtt.

8 És szóla õ velök mondván: Ha azt akarjátok, hogy eltemessem az én halottamat én elõlem: hallgassatok meg engemet, és esedezzetek én érettem Efron elõtt, Czohár fia elõtt.

9 Hogy adja nékem Makpelá barlangját, mely az övé, mely az õ mezejének szélében van: igaz árán adja nékem azt, ti köztetek temetésre való örökségûl.

10 Efron pedig ûl vala a Khéth fiai között. Felele azért Efron a Khitteus, Ábrahámnak, a Khéth fiainak és mindazoknak hallatára, a kik bemennek vala az õ városának kapuján, mondván:

11 Nem úgy uram, hallgass meg engem: azt a mezõt néked adom, s a barlangot, mely abban van, azt is néked adom, népem fiainak szeme láttára adom azt néked, temesd el halottadat.

12 És meghajtá magát Ábrahám a földnek népe elõtt.

13 És szóla Efronhoz a föld népének hallatára, mondván: Ha mégis meghallgatnál engem! megadom a mezõnek árát, fogadd el tõlem; [azután] eltemetem ott az én halottamat.

14 És felele Efron Ábrahámnak, mondván néki:

15 Uram! hallgass meg engemet; négyszáz ezüst siklusos föld, micsoda az én köztem és te közötted? Csak temesd el a te halottadat.

16 Engede azért Ábrahám Efronnak és odamérte Ábrahám Efronnak az ezüstöt, a melyet mondott vala a Khéth fiainak hallatára; kalmároknál kelendõ négyszáz ezüst siklust.

17 Így lett Efronnak Makpelában levõ mezeje, mely Mamré átellenében van, a mezõ a benne levõ barlanggal, és minden a mezõben levõ fa az egész határban köröskörûl

18 Ábrahámnak birtoka, a Khéth fiainak, mind azoknak szeme elõtt, a kik az õ városának kapuján bemennek vala.

19 Azután eltemeté Ábrahám az õ feleségét Sárát a Makpelá mezejének barlangjába Mamréval szemben. Ez Hebron a Kanaán földén.

20 Így erõsítteték meg a mezõ és a benne lévõ barlang Ábrahámnak temetésre való örökségûl a Khéth fiaitól.

   

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2928. To the people of the land, to the sons of Heth. That this signifies by those who are of the spiritual church, is evident from the signification of “people,” as being those who are in truths, thus the spiritual (see n. 1259, 1260); from the signification of the “land,” as being the church (see n. 662, 1066, 1067, 1262, 1733, 1850, 2117, 2118 at the end); and from the signification of the “sons of Heth,” as being those who are of the new spiritual church (n. 2913). The “people of the land” are sometimes mentioned in the Word where it treats of Israel and of Jerusalem, and by them in the internal sense is signified the spiritual church, or those who are of the spiritual church; for by “Israel” and by “Jerusalem” this church is meant. When Judah and Zion are treated of, the term “nation” is used, for by “nation” is signified the celestial church; and this church is meant by “Judah” and by “Zion.”

[2] That it is said the “people of the land” when Israel and Jerusalem are treated of (thus where it treats of the spiritual church), is evident from many passages in the Word; as in Ezekiel:

Say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord Jehovih to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to the ground of Israel, They shall eat their bread in sadness, and shall drink their waters in devastation; that her land may be laid waste; the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate (Ezekiel 12:19-20); where in the internal sense Jerusalem and the ground of Israel denote the spiritual church; “bread” and “waters,” charity and faith, or good and truth; the “land,” the church itself, which is said to be “wasted” as to good, and “desolate” as to truth.

[3] In the same:

Gog and his multitude shall the house of Israel bury, that they may cleanse the land seven months; and all the people of the land shall bury them (Ezekiel 39:11-13);

“Gog” denotes external worship separate from internal, which is idolatrous (n. 1151); the “house of Israel,” the spiritual church in respect to good; the “people of the land,” the same in respect to truth; the “land,” the church itself. The “land” denotes the church for the reason that the land of Canaan represented the Lord’s kingdom and thus the church, for the Lord’s kingdom on earth is the church.

[4] In the same:

All the people of the land shall be for this oblation for the prince in Israel; and upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin-offering. The people of the land shall bow themselves at the door of the gate in the sabbaths and in the new moons; and the people of the land shall enter, in the appointed feasts (Ezekiel 45:16, 22; 46:3, 9); where the New Jerusalem, that is, the Lord’s spiritual kingdom, is treated of; they who are in it are the “people of the land;” the “prince” is truth Divine which is from the Lord.

[5] The sons of Heth are so called because by “sons” are signified truths (see n. 489, 491, 533, 1147, 2623). Truths are predicated of the spiritual, because the spiritual are initiated into good by means of truths, that is, into charity by means of faith; and because they do good from the affection of truth, not knowing that it is good from anything else than because they are so instructed. Their conscience also is founded in these truths of faith (see n. 1155, 1577, 2046, 2088, 2184, 2507, 2715, 2716, 2718).

  
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Genesis 23

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1 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.

2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

3 Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

5 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

6 "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead."

7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

8 He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place."

10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

11 "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

12 Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

13 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

15 "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."

16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.

17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

18 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

20 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.