¹ 撒拉享寿一百二十七岁，这是撒拉一生的岁数。

² 撒拉死在迦南地的基列亚巴，就是希伯仑。亚伯拉罕为他哀恸哭号。

³ 後来亚伯拉罕从死人面前起来，对赫人说：

⁴ 我在你们中间是外人，是寄居的。求你们在这里给我一块地，我好埋葬我的死人，使他不在我眼前。

⁵ 赫人回答亚伯拉罕说：

⁶ 我主请听。你在我们中间是一位尊大的王子，只管在我们最好的坟地里埋葬你的死人；我们没有一人不容你在他的坟地里埋葬你的死人。

⁷ 亚伯拉罕就起来，向那地的赫人下拜，

⁸ 对他们说：你们若有意叫我埋葬我的死人，使他不在我眼前，就请听我的话，为我求琐辖的儿子以弗仑，

⁹ 把田头上那麦比拉洞给我；他可以按着足价卖给我，作我在你们中间的坟地。

¹⁰ 当时以弗仑正坐在赫人中间。於是，赫人以弗仑在城门出入的赫人面前对亚伯拉罕说：

¹¹ 不然，我主请听。我送给你这块田，连田间的洞也送给你，在我同族的人面前都给你，可以埋葬你的死人。

¹² 亚伯拉罕就在那地的人民面前下拜，

¹³ 在他们面前对以弗仑说：你若应允，请听我的话。我要把田价给你，求你收下，我就在那里埋葬我的死人。

¹⁴ 以弗仑回答亚伯拉罕说：

¹⁵ 我主请听。值四百舍客勒银子的一块田，在你我中间还算甚麽呢？只管埋葬你的死人罢！

¹⁶ 亚伯拉罕听从了以弗仑，照着他在赫人面前所说的话，把买卖通用的银子平了四百舍客勒给以弗仑。

¹⁷ 於是，麦比拉、幔利前、以弗仑的那块田和其中的洞，并田间四围的树木，

¹⁸ 都定准归与亚伯拉罕，乃是他在赫人面前并城门出入的人面前买妥的。

¹⁹ 此後，亚伯拉罕把他妻子撒拉埋葬在迦南地幔利前的麦比拉田间的洞里。〈幔利就是希伯仑〉。

²⁰ 从此，那块田和田间的洞就藉着赫人定准归与亚伯拉罕作坟地。

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.