Genesis 23:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Abraham said to Ephron, in the hearing of the people of the land, If only you will give ear to me, I will give you the price of the field; take it, and let me put my dead to rest there.

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  • Gen 14:22-23 : 22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:
  • 2 Sam 24:24 : 24 And the king said to Araunah, No, but I will give you a price for it; I will not give to the Lord my God burned offerings for which I have given nothing. So David got the grain-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
  • Acts 20:35 : 35 In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
  • Rom 13:8 : 8 Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law.
  • Phil 4:5-8 : 5 Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near. 6 Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God. 7 And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 8 For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.
  • Col 4:5 : 5 Be wise in your behaviour to those who are outside, making good use of the time.
  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 23:14-20
    7 verses
    89%

    14 So Ephron said to Abraham,

    15 My lord, give ear to me: the value of the land is four hundred shekels; what is that between me and you? so put your dead to rest there.

    16 And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.

    17 So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,

    18 Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all who came into the town.

    19 Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan.

    20 And the field and the hollow rock were handed over to Abraham as his property by the children of Heth.

  • Gen 23:2-12
    11 verses
    88%

    2 And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.

    3 And Abraham came from his dead and said to the children of Heth,

    4 I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

    5 And in answer the children of Heth said to Abraham,

    6 My lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the best of our resting-places for your dead; not one of us will keep back from you a place where you may put your dead to rest.

    7 And Abraham got up and gave honour to the children of Heth, the people of that land.

    8 And he said to them, If you will let me put my dead to rest here, make a request for me to Ephron, the son of Zohar,

    9 That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you.

    10 Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town, saying,

    11 No, my lord, I will give you the field with the hollow in the rock; before all the children of my people will I give it to you for a resting-place for your dead.

    12 And Abraham went down on his face before the people of the land.

  • Gen 49:29-32
    4 verses
    81%

    29 And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

    30 In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place.

    31 There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest.

    32 In the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth.

  • Gen 25:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9 And Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, put him to rest in the hollow rock of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, near Mamre;

    10 The same field which Abraham got from the children of Heth: there Abraham was put to rest with Sarah, his wife.

  • Gen 50:13
    76%

    13 For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.

  • Gen 20:15
    72%

    15 And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.

  • Acts 7:16
    71%

    16 And they were taken over to Shechem, and put to rest in the place which Abraham got for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

  • Gen 33:19
    70%

    19 And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.

  • Gen 21:23
    69%

    23 Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

  • Gen 21:30
    69%

    30 And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.

  • Gen 13:17
    68%

    17 Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.

  • Gen 50:5
    68%

    5 My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.