New Revised Standard Version
The field and the cave that is in it passed from the Hittites into Abraham’s possession as a burying place.

Contemporary English Version
he had bought from the Hittites.

New American Bible
Thus the field with its cave was transferred from the Hittites to Abraham as a burial place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.

And the field was made sure to Abraham, and the cave that was in it, for a possession to bury in, by the children of Heth.

were.

Ruth 4:7-10 Now this in former times was the manner in Israel between kinsmen, that if at any time one yielded his right to another: that the grant might be sure, the man put off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour; this was a testimony of cession of right in Israel. . . .

2 Samuel 24:24 And the king answered him, and said: Nay, but I will buy it of thee, at a price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God holocausts free cost. So David bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of silver:

Jeremiah 32:10,11 And I wrote it in a book and sealed it, and took witnesses: and I weighed him the money in the balances. . . .

for a.

Genesis 25:9 And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, which was situated in the field of Ephron the son of Seor the Hethite, over against Mambre,

Genesis 49:31,32 There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried with Rebecca, his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried. . . .

Genesis 50:5,13,24,25 For my father made me swear to him, saying: Behold I die; thou shalt bury me in my sepulchre which I have digged for myself in the land of Chanaan. So I will go up and bury my father, and return. . . .

2 Kings 21:18 And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amon, his son, reigned in his stead.