⁷ Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites. ⁸ He said to them, “If you are willing to let me bury my dead, then listen to me and intercede with Ephron son of Zohar^(A) on my behalf ⁹ so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah,^(B) 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.”