So Abram said to Lot, “There should be no arguing between you and me or between your people and my people. We are all brothers.

Then the king of Sodom told Abram, “Give me my people who were captured. But you can keep everything else.”

“No, sir. Here in front of my people, I give you that land and the cave on it so that you can bury your wife.”

But my master said to me, ‘I serve the Lord, and he will send his angel with you and help you. You will find a wife for my son among my people there.

I was kidnapped and taken from the land of my people, the Hebrews. I have done nothing wrong! I should not be in prison.”

Then Israel gave them a command. He said, “When I die, I want to be with my people. I want to be buried with my ancestors in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.