1And the life of Sarah was one hundred and twenty-seven years, and Sarah

2I am a stranger and a sojourner with you in your land; give me a possession

3And the children of Heth said unto Abraham, behold the land is before thee,

4And Abraham said unto them, If you are agreeable to this go and entreat for

5And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth, and they went and called for

6And Ephron answered and said Behold the field and the cave are before thee,

7And Ephron and all his brethren heard this, and Abraham weighed to Ephron

8And these are the names of the witnesses, Amigal son of Abishna the

9And Abraham took the book of the purchase, and placed it in his treasures,

10That the cave and the field Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite, and

11And the field and the cave that was in it and all that place were made

12And after this Abraham buried his wife Sarah there, and that place and all

13And Abraham buried Sarah with pomp as observed at the interment of kings,

14And at her bier was Shem, his sons Eber and Abimelech, together with Anar,

15And the days of Sarah were one hundred and twenty-seven years and she

16And all the inhabitants of the land comforted Abraham and Isaac his son on

17And when the days of their mourning passed by Abraham sent away his son

18At that time Abraham rose up with all his servants, and they went and

19And at the revolution of the year Abimelech king of the Philistines died

20And it was after the death of Abimelech that the people of Gerar took

21And they called his name Abimelech after the name of his father, for thus

22And Lot the son of Haran also died in those days, in the thirty-ninth year

23And these are the children of Lot, that were born to him by his daughters,

24And the two sons of Lot went and took themselves wives from the land of

25And all the families of the children of Lot went to dwell wherever they

26And they went and built themselves cities in the land where they dwelt,

27And Nahor the son of Terah, brother to Abraham, died in those days in the

28And when Abraham heard that his brother was dead he grieved sadly, and he

29And Abraham called for Eliezer his head servant, to give him orders

30And Abraham said to him, Behold I am old, I do not know the day of my

31But go to my land and to my birthplace, and take from thence a wife for my

32And the servant answered his master Abraham and said, Behold I go to thy

33And Abraham said unto him, Take heed that thou bring not my son hither

34And Eliezer did as Abraham ordered him, and Eliezer swore unto Abraham his

35And Isaac came home to his father's house to Beersheba, whilst Eliezer and

36And Eliezer, Abraham's servant, prayed and said, O God of Abraham my

37And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Eliezer, for the sake of his

38And Eliezer related to them all his concerns, and that he was Abraham's

39And they all blessed the Lord who brought this thing about, and they gave

40And the young woman was of very comely appearance, she was a virgin, and

41And Bethuel and Laban and his children made a feast on that night, and

42And Eliezer rose up in the morning, he and the men that were with him, and

43And they sent Eliezer away with his men; and the servants took Rebecca,

44And Isaac took Rebecca and she became his wife, and he brought her into

45And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca, the daughter of his

Chapter 24

Abraham Purchases a Burial Place. Isaac sent to the House of Shem