4. “I live as a foreigner in your land, and I don't own any property where I can bury my wife. Please let me buy a piece of land.”
5-6. “Sir,” they answered, “you are an important man. Choose the best place to bury your wife. None of us would refuse you a resting place for your dead.”
7. Abraham bowed down
8. and replied, “If you are willing to let me bury my wife here, please ask Zohar's son Ephron
9. to sell me Machpelah Cave at the end of his field. I'll pay what it's worth, and all of you can be witnesses.”