Matthew 27:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

After conferring together, they used them to buy the potter’s field as a place to bury foreigners.

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And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

So after consultation they bought with them [the pieces of silver] the potter's field [as a place] in which to bury strangers.

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

So they decided to use it to buy the potter’s field where strangers could be buried.

Then, having taken counsel, they bought the potter's field with it, as a burying place for sojourners.

And after they had consulted together, they bought with them the potter's field, to be a burying place for strangers.

But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood money.”

For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.