4 “I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”
5 The sons of Heth answered Abraham,
6 “Listen, sir, you are a mighty prince among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you from burying your dead.”
7 Abraham got up and bowed down to the local people, the sons of Heth.
8 Then he said to them, “If you agree that I may bury my dead, then hear me out. Ask Ephron the son of Zohar
9 if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site.”
10 (Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite replied to Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth – before all who entered the gate of his city –