Genesis 23:10-12

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¹⁰ Ephron was sitting among the Hittites at the city gate [^Cplace where commercial transactions took place]. He answered Abraham [^Lin the hearing of the Hittites], ¹¹ “No, ·sir [my Lord]. [^LHear me,] I will give you the ·land [field] and the cave that is in it, with these people as witnesses. Bury your ·dead wife [^Ldead].”

¹² Then Abraham bowed down before the ·Hittites [^Lpeople of the land].