Genesis 23:13 meaning and explanation
and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”
Genesis 23:13, Berean Standard Bible
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Abraham is a grieving widower and a resident foreigner negotiating with Ephron the Hittite at the city gate, where legal matters were settled before witnesses. Ephron had offered the field and cave as a gift, but Abraham insists on paying, and here he presses the offer a second time.
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