RLDS Verse Context
Inspired Version, 1908 Book of Mormon, DC 1-144
Genesis 22:27 - Genesis 23:8
27 And Bethuel begat Rebekah.
28 These eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother; and his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, Thahash, and Maachah.
Genesis 23
Intro: Sarah's death and burial -- Purchase of the field of Ephron.
1 And Sarah was an hundred and twenty-seven years old, and she died; and thus ended the years of the life of Sarah.
2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is now called Hebron, in the land of Canaan.
3 And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her, his wife which was dead.
4 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, Hear us, my lord; thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choicest of our sepulchers bury thou thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulcher, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
6 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, and to the children of Heth; and he communed with them, saying,
7 If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat Ephron the son of Zohar for me, that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath in the end of his field;
8 For, as much money as it is worth he shall have, if he will give it me for a possession of a burying-place among you.
28 These eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother; and his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, Thahash, and Maachah.
Genesis 23
Intro: Sarah's death and burial -- Purchase of the field of Ephron.
1 And Sarah was an hundred and twenty-seven years old, and she died; and thus ended the years of the life of Sarah.
2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is now called Hebron, in the land of Canaan.
3 And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her, his wife which was dead.
4 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, Hear us, my lord; thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choicest of our sepulchers bury thou thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulcher, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
6 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, and to the children of Heth; and he communed with them, saying,
7 If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat Ephron the son of Zohar for me, that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath in the end of his field;
8 For, as much money as it is worth he shall have, if he will give it me for a possession of a burying-place among you.