He said to them, “If you are willing for me to bury my dead, listen to me and ask Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf to give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me in your presence, for the full price, as a burial place.”

10 Ephron was sitting among the Hittites. So in the presence[a] of all the Hittites who came to the gate of his city,(A) Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham:

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 23:10 Lit ears

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