Antiquities of the Jews
Flavius Josephus
Book 1 · Chapter 14
About this work
A history of the Jewish people from creation to the outbreak of the war with Rome, retelling biblical traditions and continuing into the first century AD. Josephus presents Jewish history to a Greek-speaking audience.
- Author
- Flavius Josephus
- Date
- Later first century AD
- Genre
- History
- Textual language
- Greek
- Translator
- William Whiston
- Translation / Edition
- William Whiston translation, first published 1737.
Now Sarah died a little while after, having lived one hundred and twenty-seven years. They buried her in Hebron; the Canaanites publicly allowing them a burying-place; which piece of ground Abraham bought for four hundred shekels, of Ephron, an inhabitant of Hebron. And both Abraham and his descendants built themselves sepulchers in that place.