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And Abraham bowed before the people of the land.

He spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "If you will only please listen to me; I will give the price of the field, accept it from me that I may bury my dead there."

Then Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

"My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred ^(j)shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? So bury your dead."

Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham ^(k)weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the ^[h]hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, ^[i]commercial standard.