Genesis 23:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Zech 11:12 : 12 And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.
  • Jer 32:9 : 9 So I got for a price the property in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and gave him the money, seventeen shekels of silver;
  • Ezek 45:12 : 12 And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
  • 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 4:8 : 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.
  • 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.
  • Gen 23:15 : 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.
  • Gen 43:21 : 21 As well as more money, with which to get food: we have no idea who put our money in our bags.
  • Exod 30:13 : 13 And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.
  • Ezra 8:25-30 : 25 And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given: 26 Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold, 27 And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold. 28 And I said to them, You are holy to the Lord and the vessels are holy: and the silver and the gold are an offering freely given to the Lord, the God of your fathers. 29 Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord. 30 So the priests and the Levites took the weight of silver and gold and the vessels, to take them to Jerusalem into the house of our God.
  • Job 28:15 : 15 Gold may not be given for it, or a weight of silver in payment for it.

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  • Gen 23:3-15
    13 verses
    86%

    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.

    13 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.

    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.

  • Gen 23:17-20
    4 verses
    75%

    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 20:16
    72%

    16 And he said to Sarah, See, I have given to your brother a thousand bits of silver so that your wrong may be put right; now your honour is clear in the eyes of all.

  • Gen 33:19
    71%

    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 49:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • 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.

  • Jer 32:9-10
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    70%

    9 So I got for a price the property in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and gave him the money, seventeen shekels of silver;

    10 And I put it in writing, stamping it with my stamp, and I took witnesses and put the money into the scales.

  • Gen 49:32
    69%

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

  • Gen 25:10
    69%

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

  • Gen 24:22
    68%

    22 And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;

  • Num 3:50
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    50 From the first sons of Israel he took it, a thousand, three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the scale of the holy place;

  • Josh 24:32
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    32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.

  • Zech 11:12
    67%

    12 And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.

  • 1 Kgs 10:29
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    29 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

  • Gen 13:2
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    2 Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

  • Gen 24:53
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    53 Then he took jewels of silver and jewels of gold and fair robes and gave them to Rebekah: and he gave things of value to her mother and her brother.

  • Judg 17:2
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    2 And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver which were taken from you, about which you took an oath and said in my hearing, I have given this silver to the Lord from my hand for myself, to make a pictured image and a metal image: see, I have the silver, for I took it: so now I will give it back to you. And his mother said, May the blessing of the Lord be on my son.

  • 1 Chr 21:25
    66%

    25 So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.

  • 2 Kgs 18:15
    66%

    15 So Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the house of the Lord, and in the king's store-house.

  • Exod 38:25
    66%

    25 And the silver given by those who were numbered of the people was a hundred talents, and a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.