16 Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham (A)weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the [a]hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, [b]commercial standard.

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  1. Genesis 23:16 Lit ears
  2. Genesis 23:16 Lit current according to the merchant

19 (A)He bought the piece of land where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred [a]pieces of money.

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  1. Genesis 33:19 Heb qesitah

13 for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in (A)the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field for a [a]burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

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  1. Genesis 50:13 Lit possession of a burial place

32 Now (A)they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the piece of ground (B)which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred [a]pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of Joseph’s sons.

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  1. Joshua 24:32 Heb qesitah