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Burial: Antiquity of Purchasing Places For Genesis 23:7–16

Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites. / “If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf / to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”