Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Gen 23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Gen 23:15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
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Ver. 14, 15. What is that between me and thee?] Who both are great friends, and well underlaid. See a like kind contestation between David and Araunah, 2Sa 24:22-23.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron,.... He agreed at once…
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 the money:
and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver: for in those times money had no mark or stamp upon it to show its value, and therefore was not told by pieces, but weighed, by which its full worth was known; and that Ephron might have his whole and just demand, the silver was weighed to him:
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which he had named, in the audience of the sons of Heth; who were witnesses of the bargain, of the price set by Ephron, and of the payment of it by Abraham:
four hundred shekels of silver: the sum before mentioned, Gen 23:15,
current money with the merchant; such as was used by merchants in buying and selling; such as they would receive, who knew the value of it, and were careful not to take any that was bad; wherefore such as would pass, with them would go anywhere, was current money; how all this is consistent with what Stephen says; See Gill on Act 7:16.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 14, 15. And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto…
Vers. 14, 15. And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver. The word "shekel," from shakal, to weigh, here used for the first time, was not a stamped coin, but a piece of metal of definite weight, according to Exo_30:13, equal to twenty gerahs, or beans, from garar, to roll. Coined money was unknown to the Hebrews until after the captivity. In the time of the Maccabees (RAPC 1Ma 15:6) silver coins were struck bearing the inscription lar lq According to Josephus (Ant., iii. 8, 2) the shekel in use in his day was equal to four Athenian drachmae; and if, as is believed, these were one-fifth larger than the old shekels coined by Simon Maccabeus, the weight of the latter would be equal to three and one-third drachms, or two hundred grains, reckoning sixty grains to a drachm. It is impossible to ascertain the weight of the shekel current with the merchant in the time of Abraham; but reckoning it at a little less than 2s. 6d. sterling, the price of Ephron"s field must have been somewhat under a very consider able sum of money, which the Hittite merchant begins to depreciate by representing as a trifle, saying, What is that betwixt me and thee? words which are still heard in the East on similar occasions (vide " Land and Book," p. 578)bury therefore thy dead.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 This is the name of a man. See how…
Ephron
This is the name of a man. See how you translated this in Genesis 23:8. (See: How to Translate Names)
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Please, my master, listen to me
"Hear me, my master" or "Listen to me, kind sir"
my master
This phrase is used to show respect to Abraham.
A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you?
Ephron meant that since he and Abraham were both so wealthy, 400 pieces of silver was a small amount. This rhetorical question can be translated as a statement. AT: "The piece of land is worth only four hundred shekels of silver. For you and me, that is nothing." (See: Rhetorical Question)
four hundred shekels of silver
This is about 4.5 kilograms of silver. (See: Biblical Weight)
four hundred
"400" (See: Numbers)
Bury your dead
The nominal adjective "dead" can be stated as a verb or simply as "wife." AT: "Go bury your wife who has died" or "Go bury your wife" (See: Nominal Adjectives)
Abraham weighed out to Ephron the amount of silver
"Abraham weighed the silver and gave Ephron the amount" or "Abraham counted out to Ephron the amount of silver"
the amount of silver that he had spoken
"the amount of silver that Ephron had said"
in the hearing of the sons of Heth
The abstract noun "the hearing" can be stated as "hear" or "listening." AT: "so that all the sons of Heth could hear him" or "while all the sons of Heth were listening" (See: Abstract Nouns)
the sons of Heth
Here "sons" stands for those who descended from Heth. See how you translated this in Genesis 23:3. AT: "the descendants of Heth" (See: How to Translate Names)
according to the standard measurement of the merchants
"using the standard measurement of weight that merchants used." This can be stated as a new sentence. AT: "He weighed the silver the same way that the merchants used to weigh it"
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