“Hear us, my lord.
You are a prince of God among us.
Bury your dead in the best of our tombs.
None of us will withhold from you his tomb.
Bury your dead.”
Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.
He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,