Genesis 23:8-16
8And he said to them, “If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar, 9that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place.”10Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who awent in at the gate of his city, 11“No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.” 12Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land. 13And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.” 14Ephron answered Abraham, 15“My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred bshekels ▼
▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.” 16Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham dweighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants. 1 Chronicles 21:22
22And David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the Lord—give it to me at its full price—that the plague may be averted from the people.”Jeremiah 32:6-14
6Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me: 7Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, e‘Buy my field that is at fAnathoth, gfor the right of redemption by purchase is yours.’ 8Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in hthe court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the Lord, and said to me, ‘Buy my field that is at iAnathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.9“And I bought the field at jAnathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and kweighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver. 10 lI signed the deed, msealed it, ngot witnesses, and oweighed the money on scales. 11Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions and the open copy. 12And I gave the deed of purchase to pBaruch the son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my cousin, in the presence of qthe witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in rthe court of the guard. 13I charged sBaruch in their presence, saying, 14‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time.
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