Heth

¹³ And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

¹⁴ the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

¹⁵ And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

¹⁶ the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

³ Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,

⁴ “I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

⁵ The Hittites replied to Abraham,

⁶ “Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”

⁷ Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.

¹⁰ Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,

¹¹ “No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. 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, according to the standard of the merchants.

¹⁷ So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over

¹⁸ to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.

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

²⁰ So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.

This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”