Genesis 23:8–16

⁸And he spoke with them, saying, “If it is your ¹desire for me to bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and meet with ^aEphron the son of Zohar for me,

⁹that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which belongs to him, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in ¹your presence as a possession for a burial site.”

¹⁰Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth, even ^aof all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

¹¹“No, my lord, hear me; ^aI give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.”

¹²And Abraham bowed before the people of the land.

¹³And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, “If you will only please hear me; I will give the silver for the field, accept it from me that I may bury my dead there.”

¹⁴Then Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

¹⁵“My lord, hear me; a piece of land worth ¹four hundred ^ashekels of silver, what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

¹⁶So Abraham heard Ephron; and Abraham ^aweighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the ¹hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, ²commercial standard.