Genesis 23:9
23:9 if he will sell 1 me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly 2 for the full price, 3 so that I may own it as a burial site.”
Genesis 23:13
23:13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay 4 to you the price 5 of the field. Take it from me so that I may 6 bury my dead there.”
1 tn Heb “give.” This is used here (also a second time later in this verse) as an idiom for “sell”; see the note on the word “grant” in v. 4.
2 tn Heb “in your presence.”
3 tn Heb “silver.”
4 tn Heb “give.”
5 tn Heb “silver.”
6 tn After the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose or result.