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Genesis 23:16

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Abraham agreed and paid Ephron in front of the Hittite witnesses. He weighed out the full price, ten pounds of silver, and they counted the weight as the traders normally did.

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“Sir, the land is worth ten pounds of silver, but I won’t argue with you over the price. Take the land, and bury your dead wife.”

While we were going home, we stopped for the night and when we opened our sacks each of us found all his money in his sack. We brought that money with us to give it back to you.

Then Israel gave them a command and said, “I am about to die. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried it in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre. Abraham had bought this cave and field from Ephron the Hittite to use as a burial place.

At the end of every year, Absalom would cut his hair, because it became too heavy. When he weighed it, it would weigh about five pounds by the royal measure.

But the king answered Araunah, “No, I will pay you for the land. I won’t offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for one and one-fourth pounds of silver.

Wisdom cannot be bought with gold, and its cost cannot be weighed in silver.

Every person who is counted must pay one-fifth of an ounce of silver. (This is set by using one-half of the Holy Place measure, which weighs two-fifths of an ounce.) This amount is a gift to the Lord.

I signed the record and sealed it and had some people witness it. I also weighed out the silver on the scales.

“I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, weighing out seven ounces of silver for him.

The shekel will be worth twenty gerahs, and a mina will be worth sixty shekels.

Then I said, “If you want to pay me, pay me. If not, then don’t.” So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.

“Do to others what you want them to do to you. This is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets.

Later their bodies were moved to Shechem and put in a grave there. (It was the same grave Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.)

Do not owe people anything, except always owe love to each other, because the person who loves others has obeyed all the law.

Brothers and sisters, think about the things that are good and worthy of praise. Think about the things that are true and honorable and right and pure and beautiful and respected.

Also, do not wrong or cheat another Christian in this way. The Lord will punish people who do those things as we have already told you and warned you.




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