Gênesis 23

1 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life. 2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 3 Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying, 4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

5 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, 6 "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead."

7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth. 8 He talked with them, saying, "If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, 9 that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me among you as a possession for a burial place."

10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying, 11 "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

12 Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land. 13 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 15 "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver*23:15 A shekel is about 10 grams, so 400 shekels would be about 4 kg. or 8.8 pounds. between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."

16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded 18 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city. 19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. 20 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place.

Te Matenga me te Tanumanga o Hara

1 Nā, kotahi rau e rua tekau mā whitu ngā tau i ora ai a Hara. Ko ngā tau ēnei i ora ai a Hara. 2 Nā, ka mate a Hara ki Kiriata Arapa (arā ki Heperona) i te whenua o Kanaana; ā, ka haere a Āperahama ki te uhunga ki a Hara, ki te tangi hoki ki a ia.

3 Ā, ka whakatika a Āperahama i te ritenga atu o tōna tūpāpaku, ka kōrero ki ngā tama a Hete, ka mea, 4 "He manene ahau, he noho noa iho i roto i a koutou; hōmai tētahi wāhi ki ahau hei tanumanga i roto i a koutou, kia tanumia ai e ahau tōku tūpāpaku, kia ngaro ai i tāku tirohanga."

5 Nā, ka whakahoki ngā tama a Hete ki a Āperahama, ka mea ki a ia, 6 "Whakarongo ki a mātou, e tōku ariki; he rangatira nui koe i roto i a mātou. Whiriwhiria e koe tētahi o ō mātou urupā, ka tanu ai i tōu tūpāpaku. E kore e kaiponuhia e tētahi o mātou tana urupā i a koe, hei tanumanga mō tōu tūpāpaku."

7 Nā, ka whakatika a Āperahama, ka piko ki te tangata whenua, ki ngā tama a Hete, 8 ā, ka kōrero ia ki a rātou, ka mea, "Ki te whai ngākau koutou kia tanumia e ahau tōku tūpāpaku kia ngaro atu i tāku tirohanga, whakarongo mai ki ahau, ka tohe atu ki a Eperona, tama a Tohara, mōku, 9 kia hōmai e ia ki ahau tana ana, a Makapera, i te pito o tōna wāhi oneone. Kia hōmai e ia ki ahau i waenganui i a koutou mō ngā moni e rite ana hei utu, kia puritia e ahau hei urupā."

10 Nā, ko Eperona i roto i ngā tama a Hete e noho ana; nā, ka whakahoki a Eperona Hiti ki a Āperahama, me te whakarongo anō ngā tama a Hete, me ngā tāngata katoa hoki i tomo i te kūwaha o tōna pā, ka mea, 11 "Kāhore, e tōku ariki, whakarongo ki ahau; ka hoatu e ahau tēnā wāhi ki a koe, me te ana i reira, ka hoatu e ahau ki a koe. Ka hoatu e ahau i te aroaro o ngā tama a tōku iwi; tanumia tōu tūpāpaku."

12 Nā, ka tuohu a Āperahama i te aroaro o ngā tāngata whenua, 13 ka kōrero ki a Eperona, me te whakarongo anō ngā tāngata whenua, ka mea, "Erangi ki te hōmai e koe, whakarongo ki ahau. Ka hoatu e ahau he hiriwa ki a koe mō taua wāhi; tangohia, ā, ka tanumia e ahau tōku tūpāpaku ki reira."

14 Nā, ko te whakahokinga a Eperona ki a Āperahama, ka mea ki a ia, 15 "E tōku ariki, whakarongo mai ki ahau; he wāhi whenua e whā rau ngā hekere hiriwa tōna utu, he aha tēnā i waenganui ōku, ōu? Tanumia tōu tūpāpaku."

16 Nā, ka whakarongo a Āperahama ki a Eperona; ā, pāunatia ana e Āperahama ki a Eperona te hiriwa i kōrerotia e ia i te aroaro o ngā tama a Hete, e whā rau ngā hekere hiriwa, nō ngā moni e tangohia ana e ngā kaihokohoko.

17 Nā, whakapūmautia ana te wāhi oneone o Eperona, i Makapera, i te ritenga o Mamere, te oneone, me te ana i reira, me ngā rākau katoa i runga i te oneone, i roto i ōna rohe katoa, ā tawhio noa, 18 hei wāhi mō Āperahama, i te tirohanga a ngā tama a Hete, i te aroaro o ngā tāngata katoa i tomo i te kūwaha o tōna pā. 19 Ā muri iho i tēnei ka tanumia e Āperahama a Hara, tāna wahine, ki roto ki te ana, i te wāhi i Makapera i te ritenga o Mamere, arā o Heperona i te whenua o Kanaana. 20 Heoi, whakapūmautia ana e ngā tama a Hete taua wāhi me te ana i reira mō Āperahama, kia puritia hei tanumanga.