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!”
16. Abraham accepted Ephron’s terms; he weighed out to him the silver that Ephron had stipulated in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver at the current market value.
17. Thus Ephron’s field in Machpelah, facing Mamre, together with its cave and all the trees anywhere within its limits, was conveyed
18. to Abraham by purchase in the presence of the Hittites, all who entered the gate of Ephron’s city.