Genesis 23:9 meaning and explanation
to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”
Genesis 23:9, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Abraham is speaking to the Hittites at the city gate, where legal and business matters were settled. Still mourning Sarah, he has described himself as a foreigner and outsider among them, and now he asks them to approach Ephron son of Zohar to sell him the cave of Machpelah at the end of his field.
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