Gen. 23:10

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dwelt.Or, sitting (as the word frequently denotes) among the children of Heth, at the gate of the city, where all public business was transacted. Ephron, though a chief man, might have been personally unknown to Abraham; but now he answers for himself, making a free tender of the field and cave to Abraham, in the presence of all the people, which amounted to a legal conveyance to the Patriarch.

audience. Heb. ears. all that.

Gen 23:18; Gen 34:20; Gen 34:24; Ruth 4:1-4; Job 29:7; Isa 28:6

his.

Gen 24:10; Matt 9:1; Luke 2:3; Luke 2:4