Discovery BoxGenesis 23:4 
Context23:4 “I am a temporary settler 1 among you. Grant 2 me ownership 3 of a burial site among you so that I may 4 bury my dead.” 5
Genesis 23:8
Context23:8 Then he said to them, “If you agree 6 that I may bury my dead, 7 then hear me out. 8 Ask 9 Ephron the son of Zohar
Genesis 23:15
Context23:15 “Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 10 400 pieces of silver, 11 but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”
1 tn Heb “a resident alien and a settler.”
2 tn Heb “give,” which is used here as an idiom for “sell” (see v. 9). The idiom reflects the polite bartering that was done in the culture at the time.
3 tn Or “possession.”
4 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose.
5 tn Heb “bury my dead out of my sight.” The last phrase “out of my sight” has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
6 tn Heb “If it is with your purpose.” The Hebrew noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) here has the nuance “purpose” or perhaps “desire” (see BDB 661 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ).
7 tn Heb “bury my dead out of my sight.” The last phrase “out of my sight” has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
8 tn Or “hear me.”
9 tn Heb “intercede for me with.”
10 tn The word “worth” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
11 sn Four hundred pieces of silver. The standards for weighing money varied considerably in the ancient Near East, but the generally accepted weight for the shekel is 11.5 grams (0.4 ounce). This makes the weight of silver here 4.6 kilograms, or 160 ounces (about 10 pounds).
