¹Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.

¹Zvino upenyu hwaSara hwaiva makore zana nemakumi maviri nema­nomwe; ndiwo makore eupenyu hwaSara.

²Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

²Sara akafa paKiriyati-Abha ndiro Hebhuroni panyika yeKanani. Abhurahamu ndokuuya ndokuchema Sara nekumuririra.

³Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

³Zvino Abhurahamu wakasimuka pachiso che­wakafa wake, akataura kuvana vaHeti, achiti:

⁴“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

⁴Ndiri mutorwa nemweni kwamuri, ndipei nzvimbo yangu yekuviga pakati penyu, ive nzvimbo yangu, kuti ndivige wakafa wangu abve pachiso changu.

⁵The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

⁵Zvino vana vaHeti vakapindura Abhura­hamu, vachiti kwaari:

⁶“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”

⁶Tinzwei, ishe wedu, muri muchinda waMwari pa­kati pedu; vigai wakafa wenyu paguva rakanaka pakati pemakuva edu; hakuna pakati pedu ungakunyimai guva rake kuti muvige wakafa we­nyu.

⁷Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

⁷Zvino Abhurahamu wakasimuka ndokukotamira vanhu ve­nyika iyo, ivo vana vaHeti,

⁸He talked with them, saying, “If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

⁸ndokutaurirana navo achiti: Kana chiri chido chenyu kuti ndivige wakafa wangu abve pachiso changu, ndinzwei, mundikumbirire kuna Efu­roni mwanakomana waZohari,

⁹that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place.”

⁹kuti andipe bako reMakapera raanaro, riri pamagumo emunda wake, andipe iroro nemutengo wose, ive nzvimbo yangu yekuviga pakati penyu.

¹⁰Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

¹⁰Zvino Efuroni wakange agere pa­kati pevana vaHeti, uye Efuroni muHeti wakapindura Abhurahamu munzeve dzevana vaHeti, nedzevose vaipinda pasuwo reguta rake, achiti:

¹¹“No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”

¹¹Kwete, ishe wangu, ndinzwei; munda ndinokupai, nebako riri mauri ndinoripa kwamuri; pamberi pemeso evana vevanhu vangu ndinoripa kwamuri; vigai wakafa wenyu.

¹²Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

¹²Abhurahamu ndokukotamira pasi pamberi peva­nhu venyika iyo.

¹³He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”

¹³Zvino wakataura kuna Efuroni munzeve dzevanhu venyika iyo achiti: Asi kana uri iwe, donditeerera hako; ndi­chakupa mari yemunda; ugamu­chire kwandiri, kuti ndivige wakafa wangupo.

¹⁴Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

¹⁴Efuroni ndokupindura Abhurahamu achiti kwaari:

¹⁵“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.”

¹⁵Ishe wangu, nditeererei; mu­nda ndewe mashekeri esirivha mazana mana, chii ichocho pakati pangu nemwi? Naizvozvo vigai wakafa we­nyu.

¹⁶Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

¹⁶Abhurahamu ndokuteerera Efuroni. Zvino Abhurahamu wakayerera Efuroni mashe­keri esirivha aakareva munzeve dzevana vaHeti, mashekeri esirivha mazana mana, anoshandiswa kutenga kuvatengesi.

¹⁷So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

¹⁷Naizvozvo munda waEfuroni, wakange uri paMakapera pakatarisana neMamure, munda nebako rakange ririmo, nemiti yose yakange iri mumunda neyakange iri pamiganhu yose yakapoteredza zvikasimbiswa,

¹⁸to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

¹⁸kuna Abhurahamu kuva zvake pamberi pemeso evana vaHeti, pamberi pavose vaipinda pasuwo reguta rake.

¹⁹After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

¹⁹Zvino shure kweizvi Abhurahamu wakaviga Sara mukadzi wake mubako remunda weMakapera pakatarisana neMamure, ndiro Hebhuroni panyika yeKanani.

²⁰The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.

²⁰Zvino munda nebako raivamo zvakasimbisiwa kuna Abhurahamu kuva zvake zvekuvoga vakafa kubva kuvanakomana vaHeti