1.Mose 23 | 聖經當代譯本修訂版

亞伯拉罕買地葬撒拉

1 撒拉享年一百二十七歲，

2 在迦南境內的基列·亞巴，即希伯崙去世。亞伯拉罕在那裡痛哭，哀悼她。

3 他從妻子屍體旁邊站起來對赫人說：

4 「我是寄居在你們這裡的異鄉人，請你們給我一塊地，我好埋葬我的亡妻。」

5 赫人回答說：

6 「我主，請聽我們說，你在我們中間是一位尊貴的王子，你可以選我們這裡最好的墳地，沒有人會反對你使用他的墳地埋葬你的妻子。」

7 亞伯拉罕就向他們下拜，說：

8 「如果你們真的准我安葬妻子，就請你們代我求瑣轄的兒子以弗崙，

9 請他當著你們的面，把他田地盡頭的麥比拉洞按實價賣給我作墳地。」

10 當時以弗崙正坐在赫人當中，於是他在城門口赫人聚集的地方當眾答覆亞伯拉罕說：

11 「不可！我主，請聽我說，我當著族人的面，把那塊地和山洞送給你，你只管去安葬你的妻子！」

12 亞伯拉罕向當地的人下拜，

13 當眾對以弗崙說：「你若願意，請聽我說，我要把地錢給你，請你收下，好讓我安葬我的妻子。」

14 以弗崙回答說：

15 「我主，請聽我說，四公斤半銀子的地對你我來說算什麼呢？去安葬你的妻子吧！」

16 於是，亞伯拉罕就照以弗崙當眾提出的價錢，按通用的重量單位秤了四公斤半銀子給他。

17 這樣，以弗崙在麥比拉、靠近幔利的那塊地和山洞及地界內所有的樹木，

18 都歸了亞伯拉罕。這是在城門口的赫人面前買下的。

19 之後，亞伯拉罕把妻子撒拉安葬在迦南的幔利附近、麥比拉田間的洞裡。幔利就是希伯崙。

20 這塊赫人的地和其中的山洞從此成了亞伯拉罕家的墳地。

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English Standard Version

Sarah’s Death and Burial

1 Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

2 And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

3 And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites,*

4 “I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

5 The Hittites answered Abraham,

6 “Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God* among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead.”

7 Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.

8 And he said to them, “If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,

9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place.”

10 Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city,

11 “No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”

12 Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.

13 And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”

14 Ephron answered Abraham,

15 “My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels* of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

16 Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.

17 So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over

18 to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

20 The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.

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