Genesis 22:17   (Read all of Genesis 22)

I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,

Genesis 22:19   (Read all of Genesis 22)

Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.

Genesis 22:20   (Read all of Genesis 22)

Some time later Abraham was told, "Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

Genesis 22:23   (Read all of Genesis 22)

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham's brother Nahor.

Genesis 22:24   (Read all of Genesis 22)

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maakah.

Genesis 23:1   (Read all of Genesis 23)

Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old.

Genesis 23:2   (Read all of Genesis 23)

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

Genesis 23:3   (Read all of Genesis 23)

Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites. He said,

Genesis 23:4   (Read all of Genesis 23)

"I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead."

Genesis 23:6   (Read all of Genesis 23)

"Sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead."

Genesis 23:8   (Read all of Genesis 23)

He said to them, "If you are willing to let me bury my dead, then listen to me and intercede with Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

Genesis 23:9   (Read all of Genesis 23)

so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you."

Genesis 23:10   (Read all of Genesis 23)

Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.

Genesis 23:11   (Read all of Genesis 23)

"No, my lord," he said. "Listen to me; I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead."

Genesis 23:13   (Read all of Genesis 23)

and he said to Ephron in their hearing, "Listen to me, if you will. I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me so I can bury my dead there."

Genesis 23:15   (Read all of Genesis 23)

"Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."

Genesis 23:16   (Read all of Genesis 23)

Abraham agreed to Ephron's terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weight current among the merchants.

Genesis 23:17   (Read all of Genesis 23)

So Ephron's field in Machpelah near Mamre-both the field and the cave in it, and all the trees within the borders of the field-was deeded

Genesis 23:19   (Read all of Genesis 23)

Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre (which is at Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 23:20   (Read all of Genesis 23)

So the field and the cave in it were deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site.

Genesis 24:2   (Read all of Genesis 24)

He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh.

Genesis 24:3   (Read all of Genesis 24)

I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

Genesis 24:4   (Read all of Genesis 24)

but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac."

Genesis 24:5   (Read all of Genesis 24)

The servant asked him, "What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?"