5. The Hittites replied to Abraham,
6. “Listen to us, lord. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in our finest burial place. None of us will withhold from you his burial place for burying your dead.”
7. Then Abraham rose and bowed down to the Hittites, the people of the land.
8. He said to them, “If you are willing for me to bury my dead, listen to me and ask Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf
9. to give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me in your presence, for the full price, as a burial place.”
10. Ephron was sitting among the Hittites. So in the presence of all the Hittites who came to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham: