Genesis 23:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.

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  • Zech 11:12 : 12 I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.
  • Jer 32:9 : 9 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
  • Ezek 45:12 : 12 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
  • Rom 13:8 : 8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
  • Phil 4:8 : 8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
  • 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
  • Gen 23:15 : 15 "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."
  • Gen 43:21 : 21 and it happened, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it again in our hand.
  • Exod 30:13 : 13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
  • Ezra 8:25-30 : 25 and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered: 26 I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents; 27 and twenty bowls of gold, of one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold. 28 I said to them, You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill-offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers. 29 Watch you, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' [houses] of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Yahweh. 30 So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
  • Job 28:15 : 15 It can't be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

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  • Gen 23:3-15
    13 verses
    86%

    3Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

    4"I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

    5The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

    6"Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury your dead. None of us will withhold from you his tomb, but that you may bury your dead."

    7Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

    8He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

    9that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place."

    10Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

    11"No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

    12Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

    13He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

    14Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

    15"My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."

  • Gen 23:17-20
    4 verses
    75%

    17So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border of it round about, were made sure

    18to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

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

    20The field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.

  • Gen 20:16
    72%

    16To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated."

  • Gen 33:19
    71%

    19He bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.

  • Gen 49:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29He charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

    30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.

  • Acts 7:16
    71%

    16and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

  • Jer 32:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

    10I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

  • Gen 49:32
    69%

    32the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth."

  • Gen 25:10
    69%

    10the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. There was Abraham buried, with Sarah his wife.

  • Gen 24:22
    68%

    22It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

  • Num 3:50
    67%

    50from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

  • Josh 24:32
    67%

    32The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

  • Zech 11:12
    67%

    12I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

  • 1 Kgs 10:29
    67%

    29A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

  • Gen 13:2
    67%

    2Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

  • Gen 24:53
    67%

    53The servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.

  • Judg 17:2
    67%

    2He said to his mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from you, about which you did utter a curse, and did also speak it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. His mother said, Blessed be my son of Yahweh.

  • 1 Chr 21:25
    66%

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

  • 2 Kgs 18:15
    66%

    15Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house.

  • Exod 38:25
    66%

    25The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: