Genesis 23:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God living in our midst. Bury your dead one in the best of our tombs. No one among us will prevent you from burying your dead in your tomb.”

⁷ Then Abraham got up and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites, ⁸ and said to them, “If it is your will that I take my deceased and bury her, listen to me and convince Ephron, the son of Zohar,