Genesis 23:16

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So 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.

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  • Zech 11:12 : 12 Then I said to them,“If it seems good to you, pay me my wages, but if not, forget it.” So they weighed out my payment– thirty pieces of silver.
  • Jer 32:9 : 9 So I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel. I weighed out seven ounces of silver and gave it to him to pay for it.
  • Ezek 45:12 : 12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.
  • Rom 13:8 : 8 Exhortation to Love Neighbors Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
  • Phil 4:8 : 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if something is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things.
  • 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.
  • Gen 23:15 : 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.”
  • Gen 43:21 : 21 But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money– the full amount– in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it.
  • Exod 30:13 : 13 Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered is to pay this: a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary(a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering to the LORD.
  • Ezra 8:25-30 : 25 and I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels intended for the temple of our God– items that the king, his advisers, his officials, and all Israel who were present had contributed. 26 I weighed out to them 650 talents of silver, silver vessels worth 100 talents, 100 talents of gold, 27 20 gold bowls worth 1,000 darics, and two exquisite vessels of gleaming bronze, as valuable as gold. 28 Then I said to them,“You are holy to the LORD, just as these vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a voluntary offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers. 29 Be careful with them and protect them, until you weigh them out before the leading priests and the Levites and the family leaders of Israel in Jerusalem, in the storerooms of the temple of the LORD. 30 Then the priests and the Levites took charge of the silver, the gold, and the vessels that had been weighed out, to transport them to Jerusalem to the temple of our God.
  • Job 28:15 : 15 Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

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  • Gen 23:3-15
    13 verses
    86%

    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.”

    10(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–

    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.”

  • Gen 23:17-20
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    75%

    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 20:16
    72%

    16To Sarah he said,“Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your‘brother.’ This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.”

  • Gen 33:19
    71%

    19Then he purchased the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent; he bought it from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money.

  • Gen 49:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Acts 7:16
    71%

    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.

  • Jer 32:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9So I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel. I weighed out seven ounces of silver and gave it to him to pay for it.

    10I signed the deed of purchase, sealed it, and had some men serve as witnesses to the purchase. I weighed out the silver for him on a scale.

  • Gen 49:32
    69%

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

  • Gen 25:10
    69%

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

  • Gen 24:22
    68%

    22After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold wrist bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.

  • Num 3:50
    67%

    50From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

  • Josh 24:32
    67%

    32The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph.

  • Zech 11:12
    67%

    12Then I said to them,“If it seems good to you, pay me my wages, but if not, forget it.” So they weighed out my payment– thirty pieces of silver.

  • 1 Kgs 10:29
    67%

    29They paid 600 silver pieces for each chariot from Egypt and 150 silver pieces for each horse. They also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria.

  • Gen 13:2
    67%

    2(Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)

  • Gen 24:53
    67%

    53Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

  • Judg 17:2
    67%

    2He said to his mother,“You know the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole it, but now I am giving it back to you.” His mother said,“May the LORD reward you, my son!”

  • 1 Chr 21:25
    66%

    25So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold.

  • 2 Kgs 18:15
    66%

    15Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the LORD’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

  • Exod 38:25
    66%

    25The silver of those who were numbered of the community was one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel,