Genesis 23:16 - Modern English Version

¹⁶ Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron four hundred shekels of silver, the price that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, according to the standard commercial measure.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ So Abraham listened to what Ephron said and acted upon it. He weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: 400 shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Abraham accepted Ephron’s offer and weighed out for Ephron the silver he requested publicly before the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver at the current rate of exchange.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had requested, in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, of the approved public currency.

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Genesis 23:15

“My lord, listen to me. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver. What is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

Genesis 43:21

When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks and realized every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. So we have brought it again with us.

Genesis 49:29

Then he charged them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Genesis 50:13

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

2 Samuel 14:26

When he cut the hair of his head (and at the end of every year he cut it, for it was heavy on him), he weighed the hair from his head at two hundred shekels, according to the king’s standard.

2 Samuel 24:24

However, the king said to Araunah, “No, for I will certainly purchase from you for a fair price. I will not offer up to the Lord burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David purchased the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

Job 28:15

It cannot be bought for gold, nor can silver be weighed for its price.

Exodus 30:13

This is what everyone who is counted must give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (one shekel is twenty gerahs). The half shekel will be the offering to the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:10

I signed and sealed the deed, and summoned witnesses, and weighed the money from him in the balances.

Jeremiah 32:9

I bought the field of Hanamel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

Ezekiel 45:12

The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

Zechariah 11:12

Then I said to them, “If this is good in your eyes, then give my wages to me, but if not, then keep it.” They weighed my wages at thirty pieces of silver.

Matthew 7:12

Therefore, everything you would like men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Acts 7:16

and were carried to Shechem and put in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a price of silver from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.

Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think on these things.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

and that no man take advantage of and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, as we also have forewarned you and testified.