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[after Genesis 23]

A field of freshened flowers and ancient trees,
lovely in sunlight and with gentle breeze,
and watered when the delicate rains gave
brief showers:  all this was around the cave,
once Ephron's (Hittite, of the sons of Heth).
Purchased as place of burial for death,
by Abraham (his only property
upon the Promised Land), it was to be
a monument to his high destiny
of hope as founder of faith's family.
Four hundred shekels, merchants' money, weighed
for Ephron; then, signed for, delivered, paid
and witnessed, by Heth's sons, fully transferred,
and stands recorded in God's Holy Word.
 
Starward
 
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