⁵ The Hittites replied to Abraham, ⁶ “Sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince^(A) among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.”

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^(B) on my behalf ⁹ so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah,^(C) 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.”

¹² Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land ¹³ and he said to Ephron in their hearing, “Listen to me, if you will. I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me so I can bury my dead there.”

¹⁴ Ephron answered Abraham, ¹⁵ “Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels^[a] of silver,^(A) but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

¹⁶ Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver,^(B) according to the weight current among the merchants.^(C)

¹⁷ So Ephron’s field in Machpelah^(D) near Mamre^(E)—both the field and the cave in it, and all the trees within the borders of the field—was deeded ¹⁸ to Abraham as his property^(F) in the presence of all the Hittites^(G) who had come to the gate^(H) of the city. ¹⁹ Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah^(I) near Mamre (which is at Hebron^(J)) in the land of Canaan.^{(K) 20} So the field and the cave in it were deeded^(L) to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site.^(M)

⁹ His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him^(A) in the cave of Machpelah^(B) near Mamre,^(C) in the field of Ephron^(D) son of Zohar the Hittite,^(E)

²⁷ Jacob came home to his father Isaac^(A) in Mamre,^(B) near Kiriath Arba^(C) (that is, Hebron),^(D) where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.^{(E) 28} Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years.^{(F) 29} Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people,^(G) old and full of years.^(H) And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.^(I)

¹² So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them:^{(A) 13} They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah,^(B) near Mamre,^(C) which Abraham had bought along with the field^(D) as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.^(E)