Genesis 23:1-5 Modern English Version (MEV)

1. Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.

2. Then Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

3. Then Abraham stood up from before his dead and spoke to the Hittites, saying,

4. “I am a stranger and a foreigner among you. Give me property for a burying place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

5. So the Hittites answered Abraham,

Genesis 23