Genesis 23:15 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 23:15

“Listen to me, my lord. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

My lord, hearken unto me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

KJV

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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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver - Though the words is worth are not in the text, yet they are necessarily expressed here to adapt the Hebrew to the idiom of our tongue.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver - About fifty pounds of our money, but what is that between me and thee? - He would rather oblige his friend than have so much money.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Great courtesy, and obligingness to his friend and neighbour. Ephron was not jealous of Abraham as a resident foreigner, nor envious at him as a man likely to thrive and grow rich. He bore him no ill-will for his singularity in religion, but was much kinder to him than most people now-a-days are to their own brothers: What is that between me and thee?

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Ephron answered, Nay, my lord, &c.--Here is a great show of generosity, but it was only a show; for while Abraham wanted only the cave, he joins "the field and the cave"; and though he offered them both as free gifts, he, of course, expected some costly presents in return, without which, he would not have been satisfied.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֲדֹנִ֣י	'a.do.Ni	O lord my	H113 →
שְׁמָעֵ֔נִי	she.ma.'E.ni	listen to me	H8085 →
אֶרֶץ֩	'e.Retz	land of	H776 →
אַרְבַּ֨ע	'ar.Ba'	four	H702 →
מֵאֹ֧ת	me.'Ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
שֶֽׁקֶל־	she.kel-	shekel[s] of	H8255 →
כֶּ֛סֶף	Ke.sef	silver	H3701 →
בֵּינִ֥י	bei.Ni	between me	H996 →
וּבֵֽינְךָ֖	u.vei.ne.Kha	and between you	H996 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
הִ֑וא	hi'	[is] it	H1931 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
מֵתְךָ֖	me.te.Kha	dead your	H4191 →
קְבֹֽר׃	ke.Vor	bury	H6912 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 30:13
Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
leads to
- Leviticus 27:25
  Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Numbers 3:47
  you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 45:12
  The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
- Exodus 38:26
  a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.
Through
Ezekiel 45:12
The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
leads to
- Exodus 30:13
  Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
Through
Exodus 30:15
In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.
leads to
- Numbers 31:50
  So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
- Ephesians 6:9
  And masters, do the same for your slaves. Give up your use of threats, because you know that He who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism…
- Exodus 30:12
  “When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when…

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Genesis

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Genesis