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# Ephron
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This is the name of a man. See how you translated this in [Genesis 23:8](./07.md). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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# Please, my master, listen to me
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"Hear me, my master" or "Listen to me, kind sir"
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# my master
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This phrase is used to show respect to Abraham.
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# A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you?
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Ephron meant that since he and Abraham were both so wealthy, 400 pieces of silver was a small amount. This rhetorical question can be translated as a statement. AT: "The piece of land is worth only four hundred shekels of silver. For you and me, that is nothing." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# four hundred shekels of silver
This is about 4.5 kilograms of silver. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bweight]])
# four hundred
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"400" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])
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# Bury your dead
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The nominal adjective "dead" can be stated as a verb or simply as "wife." AT: "Go bury your wife who has died" or "Go bury your wife" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj]])
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# Abraham weighed out to Ephron the amount of silver
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"Abraham weighed the silver and gave Ephron the amount" or "Abraham counted out to Ephron the amount of silver"
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# the amount of silver that he had spoken
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"the amount of silver that Ephron had said"
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# in the hearing of the sons of Heth
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The abstract noun "the hearing" can be stated as "hear" or "listening." AT: "so that all the sons of Heth could hear him" or "while all the sons of Heth were listening" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# the sons of Heth
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Here "sons" stands for those who descended from Heth. See how you translated this in [Genesis 23:3](./03.md). AT: "the descendants of Heth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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# according to the standard measurement of the merchants
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"using the standard measurement of weight that merchants used." This can be stated as a new sentence. AT: "He weighed the silver the same way that the merchants used to weigh it"
# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/abraham]]