¹ Жизни Сарриной было сто двадцать семь лјтъ. Вотъ лјта жизни Сарриной.

² И умерла Сарра въ Киріаѕ-Арбј (что нынј Хевронъ), въ землј Ханаанской. И пришелъ Авраамъ рыдать по Саррј и оплакивать ее.

³ Потомъ отошелъ Авраамъ отъ умершей своей, и сталъ говорить сынамъ Хетовымъ, и сказалъ:

⁴ я у васъ пришлецъ и странникъ; дайте мнј въ собственность мјсто для гроба между вами, чтобы мнј умершую мою схоронить отъ глазъ моихъ.

⁵ Сыны Хета отвјтствовали Аврааму и сказали ему:

⁶ послушай насъ, господинъ нашъ; ты князь Божій посреди насъ; въ лучшемъ изъ нашихъ погребальныхъ мјстъ похорони умершую твою; никто изъ насъ не откажетъ тебј въ своемъ погребальиомъ мјстј, для погребенія умершей твоей.

⁷ Авраамъ всталъ, и поклонился народу земли той, сынамъ Хетовымъ.

⁸ И говорилъ имъ, и сказалъ: если есть у васъ на сердцј позволитъ, чтобы я схороиилъ умершую мою отъ глазъ моихъ: то послушайте меня, исходатайствуйте мнј у Ефрона, сына Цохарова,

⁹ чтобы онъ отдалъ мнј пещеру Махпелу, которая у него ва концј поля его, чтобы за довольную цјну отдалъ ее мнј посреди васъ, въ собственность для погребенія.

¹⁰ Ефронъ же сидјлъ посреди сыновъ Хетовыхъ, и отвјчалъ Ефронъ Хеттеянинъ Аврааму вслухъ сыновъ Хетовыхъ, всјхъ входящихъ во врата города его, и сказалъ:

¹¹ нјтъ, господинъ мой, послушай меня, я дарю тебј поле и пещеру, которая на немъ, дарю тебј, предъ очами сыновъ народа моего, дарю тебј ее, похорони умершую твою.

¹² Авраамъ поклонился предъ народомъ земли той,

¹³ и говорилъ Ефрону вслухъ народа земли той, и сказалъ: сдјлай милость, послушай меня; я дамъ тебј за поле серебро; ты возми у меня, тогда я похороню тамъ умершую мою.

¹⁴ Ефронъ отвјтствовалъ Аврааму и сказалъ ему:

¹⁵ господинъ мой! послушай меня: земля стоитъ четыреста сиклсй серебра; для меня и для тебя что это? похорони умершую твою.

¹⁶ Авраамъ выслушалъ Ефрона, и отвјсилъ Авраамъ Ефрону серебра, сколько онъ объявилъ вслухъ сыновъ Хетовыхъ, тоесть четыреста сиклей серебра, какое ходитъ у купцевъ.

¹⁷ Такимъ образомъ поле Ефроново, которое при Махпелј, противъ Мамре, поле и пещера, которая на немъ, и всј деревья, которые на полј во всјхъ предјлахъ его, вокругъ, сдјлалось

¹⁸ владјніемъ Авраамовымъ, предъ очами сыновъ Хета, всјхъ входящихъ во врата города его.

¹⁹ Послј сего Авраамъ похоронилъ Сарру, жену свою, въ пещерј поля, въ Махпелј, противъ Мамре (что нынј Хевронъ), въ землј Ханаанской.

²⁰ Такъ досталось Аврааму отъ сыновъ Хетовыхъ поле и пещера, которая на немъ, въ собственность для гроба.

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.