1Quando Sara tinha 127 anos,2morreu em Quiriate-Arba, que é Hebrom, na terra de Canaã. Abraão foi chorar a morte dela.3E ali mesmo, ao lado do corpo de Sara, pôs-se de pé e disse aos homens de Hete.4“Como sou estrangeiro aqui nesta terra, não tenho um sítio onde sepultar a minha mulher. Vendam-me um pedaço de terra para sepultá-la.”5Responderam-lhe:6“Tu, no nosso meio, és como um príncipe de Deus. Para nós será um privilégio que escolhas nesta terra a melhor das sepulturas, para colocares a tua falecida mulher.”7Abraão inclinou-se profundamente8e disse: “Se é essa a vossa vontade, peçam a Efrom, o filho de Zoar,9que me venda a gruta de Macpela que está na extremidade do seu campo. Pagar-lhe-ei o devido preço por ela.”10Efrom estava sentado ali, no meio da gente de Hete. Por isso, levantou-se e, publicamente, diante de todos os habitantes da terra e de todos os que passavam pela cidade, disse:11“Ouve-me, eu dou-te não só a gruta, mas até o campo todo, sem teres nada a pagar. Diante dos meus concidadãos afirmo que o dou sem te pedir preço algum. Podes ir sepultar a tua mulher.”12Abraão tornou a inclinar-se diante de todos13e respondeu a Efrom, enquanto os outros o ouviam atentamente: “Não, deixa-me que to compre. Dou-te pelo campo o preço que combinarmos e só então enterrarei a minha mulher.”14“Pois bem. A terra vale 4,5 quilos de prata; mas para dois amigos como nós isso não interessa. Vai sem preocupação enterrar o teu morto.”16No entanto, Abraão fez questão de lhe pagar o preço que ele tinha sugerido; e pagou-lhe os 4,5 quilos de prata, conforme o peso corrente entre os mercadores, tal como tinha sido combinado publicamente.17Por esse preço Abraão adquiriu o campo de Efrom, em Macpela perto de Mamre, e a gruta na extremidade da propriedade, e todas as árvores plantadas no campo.18Tornou-se pois dono desse terreno por acordo mútuo, diante de todos os cidadãos de Hete, na praça pública da povoação.19Abraão enterrou ali Sara, na gruta do campo de Macpela, perto de Hebrom, na terra de Canaã,20conforme o acordo feito com o povo de Hete.
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Sarah’s Death and Burial
1Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.2And 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.3And 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.”5The 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.”7Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.8And 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,9that 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.”10Now 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.”12Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.13And 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.”14Ephron 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.”16Abraham 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.17So 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 over18to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.19After 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.20The 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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