⁹ so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah,^(A) 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.”

¹⁰ Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites^(B) who had come to the gate^(C) of his city. ¹¹ “No, my lord,” he said. “Listen to me; I give^[a](D) you the field, and I give^[b] you the cave that is in it. I give^[c] it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”