4. “I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
5. The Hittites answered Abraham,
6. “Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead.”
7. Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.
8. And he said to them, “If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,