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AND Sara liued an hundred twentie seuen yeares. [ 1] † And she died in the citie of Arbee which is [ 2]
Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: And Abraham came to mourne, and weepe for her. † And after that he was risen [ 3] vp from :: the funeral obsequies, he spake to the children of Heth, saying: † I am a stranger and pilgrime among [ 4] you: geue me the right of a sepulchre with you, that I may burie my dead. † The children of Heth answered, [ 5] saying: † My lord heare vs, thou art a prince of God a∣mong [ 6] 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 :: ad∣ored [ 7] the people of the land, towit the children of Heth: † and he said to them: If it please your soule that I burie [ 8] my dead, heare me, and be intercessors for me to Ephron the sonne of Seor: † that he geue me the duble caue, [ 9] 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 [ 10] 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 [ 11] thou rather harken 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. † Abra∣ham [ 12] adored before the people of the land. † And he [ 13] spoke to Ephron, his people standing round about: I beseech thee to heare me: I wil geue money for the field: take it, and so I wil burie my dead in it. † And Ephron answered: [ 14] † My lord, heare me. The ground which thou desirest, is [ 15] 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 weyed the money, [ 16] 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, [ 17] wherin was the duble caue, looking towards Mambre, aswel it, as the caue, and al the trees therof in al the lymits therof round about: † was made sure to Abraham for a [ 18] 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 [ 19] Sara his wife in the duble 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, [ 20] that was in it, for a possession to burie, in of the Children of Heth.
A cleare ex∣ample of reli∣gious office in burying the dead, See. 2. Reg. 1. and 2. Paral. 35.
Adoration v∣sed for reue∣rence done to men. See also c. 27. v. 29. c 33. v 37 and S. Aug. q. 6••. in Gen.