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## Genesis 23:3-7 in Context (Verses 1–10 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/genesis/23/1) And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: *these were* the years of the life of Sarah.
 
 [2 ](/kjv/genesis/23/2) And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same *is* Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/genesis/23/3) ¶ And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
 
 [4 ](/kjv/genesis/23/4) I *am* a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/genesis/23/5) And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
 
 [6 ](/kjv/genesis/23/6) Hear us, my lord: thou *art* a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.*
 
 [7 ](/kjv/genesis/23/7) And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, *even* to the children of Heth.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/genesis/23/8) And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
 
 [9 ](/kjv/genesis/23/9) That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which *is* in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/genesis/23/10) And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, *even* of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,*
 
[Genesis 22](/kjv/genesis/22) [Genesis 24](/kjv/genesis/24)

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