After his time of mourning was over, Abraham got up from where her body lay, and went to speak with the Hittites. He said to them, “I live as an alien and stranger among you. Sell me some of your property so I can use it as a burial site for my wife.” “Hear us, my lord,” the Hittites answered, “you are a mighty prince of God among us. You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us would withhold our burial ground from you.” Then Abraham bowed respectfully before the Hittites, the people of the land and he said to them, “If you are willing to allow my wife a proper burial, then please hear me out. On my behalf please persuade your countryman, Ephron the son of Zohar, to sell me the cave he owns at Machpelah on the edge of his land. Let him sell it to me publicly and at the full price, so that I may own it for a burial site.”
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