Genesis 23:10 (KJV)

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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

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audience. Heb. ears. all that. Ge 23:18 Ge 34:20 Ge 34:24 Ru 4:1-4 Job 29:7 Isa 28:6

his. Ge 24:10 Mt 9:1 Lu 2:3 Lu 2:4

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.

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