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Verse Genesis 23:16. _CURRENT WITH THE MERCHANT_] עבר לסחר
_ober lassocher,_ _passing to_ or _with the traveller _- such as was
commonly used by those who _travelled about_ with merchandise of any
sor...
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- The Death of Sarah
2. ארבע קרית _qı̂ryat_-_'arba‛_, “Qirjath-arba‘, city
of Arba.” ארבע _'arba‛_, “Arba‘, four.”
8. עפרון _‛__eprôn_, “‘Ephron, of the dust, or resembling
a calf.”...
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CHAPTER 23 THE DEATH OF SARAH
_ 1. Sarah dies (Genesis 23:1)_
2. The grave obtained (Genesis 23:3)
3. The burial of Sarah (Genesis 23:19)
We call the attention to the typical meaning of the death
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GENESIS 23. ABRAHAM PURCHASES THE CAVE OF MACHPELAH AS A BURYING-PLACE
OF SARAH. This chapter belongs to P, as is shown by its legal
precision and the wordiness of its style, by numerous characteristi...
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_weighed_ The scales were ready. "Weighed" is the appropriate word for
the payment of money in days when money was not coined. Coined money
seems not to have been in use among the Israelites before th...
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ABRAHAM WEIGHED, &C.— They did not tell the money, as we do now, but
gave it out by weight. In time, convenience taught men to give it a
public stamp, in order to denote its value: yet it continued to...
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PART THIRTY-FIVE
THE STORY OF ABRAHAM: HIS PROVISIONS FOR POSTERITY
Genesis 23:1 to Genesis 25:18
1. _Provision of a Burial Place_ (Genesis 23:1-20)
1 And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven
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_AND ABRAHAM HEARKENED UNTO EPHRON; AND ABRAHAM WEIGHED TO EPHRON THE
SILVER, WHICH HE HAD NAMED IN THE AUDIENCE OF THE SONS OF HETH, FOUR
HUNDRED SHEKELS OF SILVER, CURRENT MONEY WITH THE MERCHANT._...
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DEATH OF SARAH AND PURCHASE OF THE BURYINGPLACE OF MACHPELAH BY
ABRAHAM
This section is from the Priestly source and dwells on the legal
transaction....
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CURRENT _money_] Note that the word 'money' is not in the original.
The word 'shekel' means 'weight,' and it is believed that, in these
early days, rings of silver of a marked weight were used, and no...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 23
ABRAHAM BUYS A FIELD
V1 Sarah lived for 127 years. That was the number of years of her
life. V2 Sarah died in Kiriath-arba in the country that...
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Ephron said that the price was 400 *shekels of silver. That was a very
big price. But Abraham paid it and he did not argue.
V17–18 So Abraham became the owner of the field that had belonged
to Ephron...
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ABRAHAM WEIGHED... CURRENT MONEY WITH THE MERCHANT. — Shekel
literally means weight, and money was not coined until long
afterwards. In the last clause, by inserting _money_ our version
antedates fact...
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וַ יִּשְׁמַ֣ע אַבְרָהָם֮ אֶל
־עֶפְרֹון֒ וַ יּ
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PURCHASE OF MACHPELAH
Genesis 23:1
IT may be supposed to be a needless observation that our life is
greatly influenced by the fact that it speedily and certainly ends in
death. But it might be intere...
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ABRAHAM BUYS A BURIAL PLACE
Genesis 23:1
Death is an ever-constant monitor that this world is not our home. We
rise up from before our dead to confess that we are only strangers and
sojourners on the...
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We now see Abraham in the midst of personal sorrow, which reveals his
character in a remarkable way.
Sarah, who had ever been to him a princess, was now taken from his
side, which meant the loss of th...
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SARAH'S DEATH
Sarah died in Kirjath Arba, which was known to the Jews as Hebron, at
the age of one hundred twenty-seven (Genesis 23:1-2). Peter considers
her to be the mother of all faithful women who...
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_Sicles. About \'a350. (Haydock) --- It was no simony to buy land for
a sepulchre, as it was not blessed. (Menochius) --- Current money, was
such as passed among merchants, though probably not yet coi...
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And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the
silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four
hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
I...
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We have had hitherto God's account of that which He had made; then the
trial and utter ruin of the creature, with the revelation of divine
mercy in Christ the Lord. We have had in fine the judgment of...
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16._And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver_. I know not what had
come into Jerome’s mind, when he says, that one letter was
abstracted from Ephron’s name, after he had been persuaded, by
Abraham’s e...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, AND 24.
But on this introduction of the heir, he necessarily becomes the main
subject; and chapter 22 opens with it: "It came to pass after these
thin...
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AND ABRAHAM HEARKENED UNTO EPHRON,.... He agreed at once to give him
the sum proposed, judging it to be a moderate price between man and
man, and he was satisfied with it, and well content to pay him...
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And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the
silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four
hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant....
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1 The age and death of Sarah.
3 The purchase of Machpelah,
19 where Sarah was buried.
1 AND Sarah was an hundred and seuen and twenty yeeres olde: these
were the yeeres of the life of Sarah.
2 And...
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And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the
silver which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four
hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. The...
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The Purchase of Machpelah...
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ELEVENTH SECTION
_The sorrows and joys of Abraham’s domestic life. The account and
genealogy of those at home. Sarah’s death. Her burial-place at
Hebron; the seed of the future inheritance of Canaan....
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THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF SARAH
The time arrives for Sarah's death at the age of 127 years. This
illustrates another lesson as regards the aftermath of the sacrifice
of the Lord Jesus. Sarah is typical...
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14-20 Prudence, as well as justice, directs us to be fair and open in
our dealings; cheating bargains will not bear the light. Abraham,
without fraud or delay, pays the money. He pays it at once in f...
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In those times silver was paid by weight, GENESIS 43:21 JEREMIAH
32:10. CURRENT MONEY WITH THE MERCHANT, i.e. right for quality as well
as weight in the judgment of merchants, whose frequent dealing i...
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This little section of inspiration furnishes much sweet and profitable
instruction to the soul. In it the Holy Spirit sets before us a
beautiful exhibition of the mode in which the man of faith should...
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‘And Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the
silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four
hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current w...
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AND ABRAHAM
(_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 23:4). _...
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Genesis 23:16
I. On Mount Moriah we find Abraham doing God's will; here we find him
suffering it.
II. Look at Abraham buying a grave; the best man of his age here
bargains for burial ground. Ponder...
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CONTENTS: Death of Sarah. Burial in cave of Machpelah.
CHARACTERS: Sarah, Abraham, sons of Heth, Ephron.
CONCLUSION: Although the man of faith knows that in the resurrection
glory he shall be heir to...
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Genesis 23:4. _A burying-place._ Abraham believed in a future state;
therefore he, as well as the other patriarchs, buried his dead.
Joseph, actuated by this belief, gave commandment for his bones to...
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_Abraham buried Sarah his wife_
ABRAHAM BURYING HIS DEAD
I. CONSIDER HIM AS A MAN.
II. CONSIDER HIM AS A MAN OF BUSINESS.
1. His independence (Genesis 23:4; Genesis 23:6).
2. His exactness ...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 23:1 Upon the death of Sarah, Abraham buys a
cave in Hebron as a burial place. By acquiring this land, Abraham
confirms that his descendants are to be associated with the land...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 23:11 Although Ephron first offers the field
and cave to Abraham for free, this may not have been his true
intention. The second time he offers it, he casually mentions what he...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 23:3. Stood up from before his dead.] “Abraham must be
thought of as ‘weeping over the face’ of Sarah (2 Kings 13:14),
and he rise sup _from the face of his dead._” (_Alford.)...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 23:1
AND SARAH WAS AN HUNDRED AND SEVEN AND TWENTY YEARS OLD (literally,
and _the lives of Sarah were an hundred and twenty and seven years_);_
_so that Isaac must have been thirty...
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And so Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years old. And she died in
Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham
came to mourn for Sarah (Genesis 23:1-2),
Now evidently Abrah...
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weighed. Genesis 43:21 Ezra 8:25 Job 28:15 Jeremiah 32:9 Zechariah
11:12