Text -- Genesis 23:9 (NET)

23:9 if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 23:9

¹ tn Heb “give.” This is used here (also a second time later in this verse) as an idiom for “sell”; see the note on the word “grant” in v. 4.

² tn Heb “in your presence.”

³ tn Heb “silver.”