9. that he may give me the cave of MACHPELAH, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place."

10. Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

11. "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

12. Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

13. He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

14. Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

15. "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."

16. Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.

17. So the field of Ephron, which was in MACHPELAH, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

18. to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

19. After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of MACHPELAH before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

20. The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.

Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of MACHPELAH, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,

30. in the cave that is in the field of MACHPELAH, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.

31. There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of MACHPELAH, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.