Genesis 23:9-11

Expanded Bible

⁹ Ask him to sell me the cave of Machpelah at the edge of his field. I will pay him the full price. You can be the witnesses that I am buying it as a burial place.”

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].”