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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Genesis 23:15

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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the land is worth four hundred shekels, &c.--as if Ephron had said, "Since you wish to know the value of the property, it is so and so; but that is a trifle, which you may pay or not as it suits you." They spoke in the common forms of Arab civility, and this indifference was mere affectation.
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