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Genesis 23:15-17
World English Bible
Genesis 23:15-17
World English Bible
15 “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver[a] 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 hearing 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
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- 23:15 A shekel is about 10 grams, so 400 shekels would be about 4 kg. or 8.8 pounds.
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