Genesis 23:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶ ‘Hear us, my lord; you are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places; none of us will withhold from you any burial ground for burying your dead.’ ⁷ Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land. ⁸ He said to them, ‘If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me Ephron son of Zohar,