Bible: Job 9:23; 10:14; 23:10-16; 27:2-6
23:10 (Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite 1 replied to Abraham in the hearing 2 of the sons of Heth – before all who entered the gate 3 of his city – 23:11 “No, my lord! Hear me out. I sell 4 you both the field and the cave that is in it. 5 In the presence of my people 6 I sell it to you. Bury your dead.”
23:12 Abraham bowed before the local people 23:13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay 7 to you the price 8 of the field. Take it from me so that I may 9 bury my dead there.”
23:14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 23:15 “Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 10 400 pieces of silver, 11 but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”
23:16 So Abraham agreed to Ephron’s price 12 and weighed 13 out for him 14 the price 15 that Ephron had quoted 16 in the hearing of the sons of Heth – 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time. 17
27:5 Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. 7 When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back, 8 27:6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,