7. Abraham got up and bowed down to the local people, the sons of Heth.
8. Then he said to them, “If you agree that I may bury my dead, then hear me out. Ask Ephron the son of Zohar
9. if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site.”
10. (Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite replied to Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth – before all who entered the gate of his city –
11. “No, my lord! Hear me out. I sell you both the field and the cave that is in it. In the presence of my people I sell it to you. Bury your dead.”
12. Abraham bowed before the local people
13. and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay to you the price of the field. Take it from me so that I may bury my dead there.”
14. Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,