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Abraham. me the right of a sepulchre with you, that I may burie my dead. The children of Heth answered, saying: My lord heare vs, thou art a Prince of God among vs: in our principal sepulchres burie thou thy dead: and no man can let thee but that in his owne monument thou mayest burie thy dead. Abraham rose vp, and adored the people of the land, to wit the children of Heth; and he said to them: If it please your soule that I burie my dead, heare me, and be intercessours for me to Ephron the sonne of Seor: that he giue me the duble caue, which he hath in the vttermost part of his field: for money to the worth therof let him deliuer it to me before you for possession of a sepulchre. And Ephron dwelt in the middest of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of al that went in at the gate of the citie, saying: No, it shal not be so, my lord, but thou rather hearken to that which I doe say: The field I deliuer to thee, and the caue that is therin, in the presence of the children of my people, burie thy dead. Abraham adored before the people of the land. And he spoke to Ephron, his people standing round about: I beseech thee to heare me: I wil giue money for the field: take it, and so I wil burie my dead in it. And Ephron answered: My lord, heare me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth foure hundred sicles of siluer: this is the price between me and thee: but how much is this? burie thy dead. Which when Abraham had heard, he weyghed the money, that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, foure hundred sicles of siluer of common currant money. And the field that before time was Ephrons, wherin was the double caue, looking towards Mambre, as wel it, as the caue, and al the trees therof in al the limits therof round about, was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of al that went in at the gate of his citie. And so Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double caue of the field, that looked towards Mambre, this is Hebron in the land of Chanaan. And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the caue that was in it, for a possession to burie in, of the Children of Heth. Rh