Genesis 23:10

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(Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hittite replied to Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth– before all who entered the gate of his city–

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  • Gen 34:20 : 20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city,
  • Gen 34:24 : 24 All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.
  • Gen 23:18 : 18 as his property in the presence of the sons of Heth before all who entered the gate of Ephron’s city.
  • Gen 24:10 : 10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.
  • Ruth 4:1-4 : 1 Boaz Settles the Matter Now Boaz went up to the village gate and sat there. Then along came the guardian whom Boaz had mentioned to Ruth! Boaz said,“Come here, what’s-your-name, and sit down.” So he came and sat down. 2 Boaz chose ten of the village leaders and said,“Sit down here!” So they sat down. 3 Then Boaz said to the guardian,“Naomi, who has returned from the region of Moab, is selling the portion of land that belongs to our relative Elimelech. 4 So I am legally informing you: Acquire it before those sitting here and before the leaders of my people! If you want to exercise your right to redeem it, then do so. But if not, then tell me so I will know. For you possess the first option to redeem it; I am next in line after you.” He replied,“I will redeem it.”
  • Job 29:7 : 7 When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,
  • Isa 28:6 : 6 He will give discernment to the one who makes judicial decisions, and strength to those who defend the city from attackers.
  • Matt 9:1 : 1 Healing and Forgiving a Paralytic After getting into a boat he crossed to the other side and came to his own town.
  • Luke 2:3-4 : 3 Everyone went to his own town to be registered. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David.

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  • Gen 23:11-20
    10 verses
    88%

    11“No, my lord! Hear me out. I sell you both the field and the cave that is in it. In the presence of my people I sell it to you. Bury your dead.”

    12Abraham bowed before the local people

    13and said to Ephron in their hearing,“Hear me, if you will. I pay to you the price of the field. Take it from me so that I may bury my dead there.”

    14Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

    15“Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 400 pieces of silver, but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

    16So Abraham agreed to Ephron’s price and weighed out for him the price that Ephron had quoted in the hearing of the sons of Heth– 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.

    17So Abraham secured Ephron’s field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border,

    18as his property in the presence of the sons of Heth before all who entered the gate of Ephron’s city.

    19After this Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah next to Mamre(that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

    20So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth.

  • Gen 23:2-9
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    87%

    2Then she died in Kiriath Arba(that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

    3Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and said to the sons of Heth,

    4“I am a foreign resident, a temporary settler, among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”

    5The sons of Heth answered Abraham,

    6“Listen, sir, you are a mighty prince among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you from burying your dead.”

    7Abraham got up and bowed down to the local people, the sons of Heth.

    8Then he said to them,“If you agree that I may bury my dead, then hear me out. Ask Ephron the son of Zohar

    9if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site.”

  • Gen 49:29-30
    2 verses
    80%

    29Then he instructed them,“I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

    30It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.

  • Gen 25:9-10
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    77%

    9His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hittite.

    10This was the field Abraham had purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.

  • Gen 49:32
    76%

    32The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.”

  • Gen 50:13
    72%

    13His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the field Abraham purchased as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.

  • Gen 20:15
    69%

    15Then Abimelech said,“Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.”

  • Gen 20:9-10
    2 verses
    67%

    9Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him,“What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!”

    10Then Abimelech asked Abraham,“What prompted you to do this thing?”

  • Gen 21:22-23
    2 verses
    67%

    22At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham,“God is with you in all that you do.

    23Now swear to me right here in God’s name that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants. Show me, and the land where you are staying, the same loyalty that I have shown you.”

  • Gen 25:5
    66%

    5Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac.

  • Acts 7:16
    66%

    16and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.