10. Now Ephron was sitting with the Hittites. So Ephron the Hittite replied to Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, all who entered the gate of his city:
11. “Please, sir, listen to me! I give you both the field and the cave in it; in the presence of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead!”
12. But Abraham, after bowing low before the people of the land,
13. addressed Ephron in the hearing of these men: “If only you would please listen to me! I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”
14. Ephron replied to Abraham, “Please,
15. sir, listen to me! A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver—what is that between you and me? Bury your dead!”