And Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years old; these were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba, the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn over, Sarah, and to weep over her, and he stood up from before his dead and spoke unto the sons of Heth, the in habitants of the land, saying: I am a stranger and so journey with you; give me a possession of a burying place with you that I may bury my dead out of my sight. And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him: Behold the land is before thee, in the choice of the land bury thy dead, for verily, no man will pre vent thee from burying thy dead. And Abraham said unto them: 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, that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which is in the end of his field, and I will purchase it of him for whatsoever he may desire for it. And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth, and they went and called him, and he came into the presence of Abraham; and Ephron said unto Abraham: Whatsoever thou wishest thy servant will do. And Abraham said: Nay, but I will buy the cave and thy field for its full value, as a possession for a burial place forever. And Ephron answered, saying: Behold the field and cave are before thee, give me whatsoever pleaseth thee. But Abraham said: Nay, only for its full value shall I purchase it from thy hands and from the hands of all those that go in at the gate of thy city, and from thy seed forever. And Ephron and all his kinsmen heard this, and Abraham weighed unto Ephron four hundred shekels of silver, into the hands of Ephron and his brethren; and Abraham wrote down these proceedings and had it testified by four witnesses, and these are their names: Ami gal, son of Abishna, the Hittite; Adihoron, son of Ashu nash, the Hivite; Abdon, son of Ahirom, the Gomrite, and Bakdil, son of Abidos, the Zidonite; and Abraham took the book of the sale and placed it in his treasury, and these are the words that Abraham wrote into the book saying: That Abraham bought the cave and the field from Ephron, the Hittite, and from his seed, and from all those that went in at the gate of his city and from their seed forever, to be the purchased possession of Abraham and his seed, and of all those that go forth from his loins for a possession of a burying place forever. And he put a seal thereto and had it testified by witnesses. Thus the field and the cave therein and the entire ground were secured for Abraham and his seed after him, from the children of Heth; and behold it is before Mamre, even in Hebron, which is in the land of Canaan. And after this Abraham buried there Sarah his wife, and that place with all its boundaries became the possession of Abraham and his seed for a burying place. And Abraham buried Sarah in great display, as it is customary with the burials of kings, and she was interred in very beautiful and costly garments. And her bier was attended by Shem and his sons Eber and Abimelech, also by Auer, Eshcol, and Mamre, and all the dignitaries of the land followed her bier. And the days of Sarah were a hundred and seven and twenty years when she died, and Abraham made a great and heavy mourning, and he observed that mourning for seven days. And all the inhabitants of the land consoled Abraham and Isaac his son concerning Sarah. . And when their days of mourning were over Abraham sent away his son Isaac to go unto the house of Shem and Eber to learn the ways and instructions of the Lord. And Isaac remained there for three years. At that time Abraham arose with all his servants and they started to return home, towards Beer-sheba. And when the year was around, Abimelech king of the Philistines, died in that year. He was one hundred and ninety-three years old when he died. And Abraham went with all his people into the land of the Philistines to comfort the household of Abimelech, and all his household, and then he returned to his home.