³ Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites.^[a](A) He said, ⁴ “I am a foreigner and stranger^(B) among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.^(C)”

⁵ The Hittites replied to Abraham, ⁶ “Sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince^(D) 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^(E) on my behalf ⁹ so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah,^(F) 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^(G) who had come to the gate^(H) of his city. ¹¹ “No, my lord,” he said. “Listen to me; I give^[b](I) you the field, and I give^[c] you the cave that is in it. I give^[d] it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”

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^[e] of silver,^(J) 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,^(K) according to the weight current among the merchants.^(L)

¹⁷ So Ephron’s field in Machpelah^(M) near Mamre^(N)—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^(O) in the presence of all the Hittites^(P) who had come to the gate^(Q) of the city.

¹⁹ For a hundred pieces of silver,^[a] he bought from the sons of Hamor,^(A) the father of Shechem,^(B) the plot of ground^(C) where he pitched his tent.^(D)

⁷ So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials^(A) accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court^(B) and all the dignitaries of Egypt— ⁸ besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household.^(C) Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.^{(D) 9} Chariots^(E) and horsemen^[a] also went up with him. It was a very large company.

¹⁰ When they reached the threshing floor^(F) of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly;^(G) and there Joseph observed a seven-day period^(H) of mourning^(I) for his father.^{(J) 11} When the Canaanites^(K) who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.”^(L) That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.^[b]

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

³² And Joseph’s bones,^(A) which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt,^(B) were buried at Shechem in the tract of land^(C) that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver^[a] from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.