1. Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.
2. Then Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
3. Then Abraham stood up from before his dead and spoke to the Hittites, saying,
4. “I am a stranger and a foreigner among you. Give me property for a burying place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
5. So the Hittites answered Abraham,
6. “Hear us, my lord. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places. None of us will withhold from you his burial place that you may bury your dead.”
7. Then Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people of the land, the Hittites.
8. He spoke with them, saying, “If it be your wish that I bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat Ephron the son of Zohar for me,