Genesis 23:8–16

⁸He said to them, “If you are willing to let me bury my dead, then listen to me and intercede with Ephron son of Zohar^e on my behalf ⁹so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah,^f which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.”

¹⁰Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites^g who had come to the gate^h of his city. ¹¹“No, my lord,” he said. “Listen to me; I give^bi you the field, and I give^c you the cave that is in it. I give^d it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”

¹²Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land ¹³and he said to Ephron in their hearing, “Listen to me, if you will. I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me so I can bury my dead there.”

¹⁴Ephron answered Abraham, ¹⁵“Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels^e of silver,^j but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

¹⁶Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver,^k according to the weight current among the merchants.^l