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Then he left his dead wife and went to talk to the Hittites. He said, “I am only a foreigner staying in your country. I have no place to bury my wife. Please give me some land so that I can bury her.”

The Hittites answered Abraham,

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Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites.[a](A) He said, “I am a foreigner and stranger(B) among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.(C)

The Hittites replied to Abraham,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 23:3 Or the descendants of Heth; also in verses 5, 7, 10, 16, 18 and 20