Between Me and You

The death of Sarah:

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 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 buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field, for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace among you. And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead. And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land. And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, 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. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.-Genesis 23:1-16***Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and his wife Sarah (Sarai) were descendants of Shem. Ephron the Hittite was a descendant of Shem's brother Ham. Shem and Ham were born to Noah the ark builder. Before and after the Lord God promised to give Canaan, land inhabited by idolaters, to Abraham, and to Abraham and Sarah's son Isaac, and to  the youngest fraternal twin son, Jacob (Israel), born to Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and to their descendants, the Hittites and other idolatrous groups were living throughout Canaan. After Sarah died, Abraham bought a cave and its adjoining property from a Hittite. After 175-year-old Abraham died, Isaac and his older half brother Ishmael, the son born to Abraham and Hagar, Sarah's maidservant,  buried Abraham's body in the cave. After 180-year-old Isaac died, Jacob and his older fraternal twin brother Esau (Edom) buried Isaac's body in the cave. When Jacob was 130 years old, he moved with his family from Canaan to Egypt, the country wherein Joseph,  the 1st son born to Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel was second-in-command. Sometime before 147-year-old Jacob died in Egypt, he made Joseph vow to bury his body in the cave. Moreover, Jacob mentioned that Rebekah's body and the body of his 1st wife Leah, Rachel's older sister, were buried in the cave. Moreover, Jacob told all of his sons to bury his body in the cave. Before 110-year-old Joseph died in Egypt, he made the Israelites vow to take his bones with them to Canaan, the Promised Land, when the Lord God brought the Israelites out of Egypt. Over 1,400 years after Moses, an Israelite from the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi, carried Joseph's bones with him when he and his older brother Aaron led the Israelites away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and through a 40-year journey through the desert wilderness, according to the commands of the Lord God, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 1 Chronicles 1:1-2:17, 3:1-24, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
                                        

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