Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her.

Genesis 23, verse 2.

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Tis a fearful thing was written by John Blaze and read by Stephen Tabor.

Genesis chapter 23 verses 1 through 4 and 17 through 20.

Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old.

She died at Carrieth Arba, that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah, and to weep

over her. Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife, and spoke to the Hittites. He said,

I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here, so I can

bury my dead.

And picking up at verse 17.

So Ephron's field and Macpila near Mammery, both the field and the cave in it, and all the

trees within the borders of the field, was deeded to Abraham as his property in the presence

of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of

the city. Afterward, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Macpila

near Mammery, which is at Hebron in the land of Canaan. So the field and the cave in it were

deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site.

Tis a fearful thing, written by John Blaze.

Tis a fearful thing to love what death can touch.

That line begins a poem written more than a thousand years ago by the Jewish poet

Judah Halevi translated in the 20th century the poet clarifies what's behind the fear

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