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Ephron replies that the field is worth four hundred shekels of silver and Abraham agrees to the price without any further bargaining. [23] He then proceeded to bury his dead wife Sarah there. [24] The burial of Sarah is the first account of a burial [25] in the Bible, and Abraham's purchase of Machpelah is the first commercial transaction ...
Mamre has frequently been associated with the Cave of the Patriarchs. According to one scholar, there is considerable confusion in the Biblical narrative concerning not only Mamre, but also Machpelah, Hebron and Kiryat Arba, all four of which are aligned repeatedly. [13] In Genesis, Mamre is also identified with Hebron itself (Genesis 23:19, 25 ...
Ephron (sold Abraham the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre at Hebron) (the cave and the field and the trees) Abraham and Hagar Ishmael Nebaioth; Kedar; Adbeel; Mibsam; Mishma; Dumah; Massa; Hadad; Tema; Jetur; Naphish; Kedemah (Mahalath) (married Essau) Hamor the Hivite (Jacob buys a tract of land from his sons for 100 shekels of silver ...
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According to Genesis, the Hittite Ephron sold Abraham the cave of Machpelah in Hebron for use as a family tomb. Later, Esau married wives from the Hittites. In the Book of Joshua 1:4, when the Lord tells Joshua "From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be ...
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A Utah man is said to have killed his son following an argument on Christmas Eve, in which he accused him and his fiancée of "withholding information" about his wife’s alleged affair.
The 400 shekels of silver that Abraham paid Ephron the Hittite to buy the cave of Machpelah and adjoining land in Genesis 23:14–16 far exceeds the 100 pieces of silver that Jacob paid the children of Hamor for the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent outside the city of Shechem in Genesis 33:18–19; the 50 shekels of silver that ...