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"I am a stranger and a foreign resident among you; give me a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

"Hear us, my lord: you are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead."

that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he owns, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in your presence for a burial site."

"My lord, listen to me: a plot of land worth four hundred shekels of silver—what is that between me and you? So bury your dead."

Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the presence of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, currency acceptable to a merchant.

to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all who entered the gate of his city.

So the field and the cave that was in it were deeded over to Abraham for a burial site by the sons of Heth.

and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live;

but you will go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."

"The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land'—He will send His angel ahead of you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.

Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and went out with a variety of good things of his master's in his hand; so he set out and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

The young woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had had relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.

Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please let me drink a little water from your jar."

And she said, "Drink, my lord"; then she quickly lowered her jar to her hand, and gave him a drink.

Now when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will also draw water for your camels until they have finished drinking."

Meanwhile, the man was taking a close look at her in silence, to find out whether the LORD had made his journey successful or not.

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel, and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,

Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring.

And he said, "Come in, blessed of the LORD! Why do you stand outside, since I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?"

"Now my master's wife Sarah bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him all that he has.