⁷ Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites;^(A) go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah,^(B) in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev^(C) and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites^(D) and to Lebanon,^(E) as far as the great river, the Euphrates.^(F)

⁷ And quarreling^(A) arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites^(B) and Perizzites^(C) were also living in the land^(D) at that time.

¹⁹ the land of the Kenites,^(A) Kenizzites, Kadmonites, ²⁰ Hittites,^(B) Perizzites,^(C) Rephaites,^{(D) 21} Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”^(E)

³ Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites.^[a](A) He said, ⁴ “I am a foreigner and stranger^(B) among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.^(C)”

⁵ The Hittites replied to Abraham, ⁶ “Sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince^(D) among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.”

⁷ Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites. ⁸ He said to them, “If you are willing to let me bury my dead, then listen to me and intercede with Ephron son of Zohar^(E) on my behalf ⁹ so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah,^(F) which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.”

¹⁰ Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites^(G) who had come to the gate^(H) of his city. ¹¹ “No, my lord,” he said. “Listen to me; I give^[b](I) you the field, and I give^[c] you the cave that is in it. I give^[d] it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”

¹² Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land ¹³ and he said to Ephron in their hearing, “Listen to me, if you will. I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me so I can bury my dead there.”

¹⁴ Ephron answered Abraham, ¹⁵ “Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels^[e] of silver,^(J) but what is that between you and me? 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,^(K) according to the weight current among the merchants.^(L)

¹⁷ So Ephron’s field in Machpelah^(M) near Mamre^(N)—both the field and the cave in it, and all the trees within the borders of the field—was deeded ¹⁸ to Abraham as his property^(O) in the presence of all the Hittites^(P) who had come to the gate^(Q) of the city. ¹⁹ Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah^(R) near Mamre (which is at Hebron^(S)) in the land of Canaan.^{(T) 20} So the field and the cave in it were deeded^(U) to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site.^(V)

² When Shechem^(A) son of Hamor^(B) the Hivite,^(C) the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her.^(D)

³⁰ Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble^(A) on me by making me obnoxious^(B) to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land.^(C) We are few in number,^(D) and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

The Death of Jacob

²⁹ Then he gave them these instructions:^(A) “I am about to be gathered to my people.^(B) Bury me with my fathers^(C) in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,^{(D) 30} the cave in the field of Machpelah,^(E) near Mamre^(F) in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field^(G) as a burial place^(H) from Ephron the Hittite.

⁸ So I have come down^(A) to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land,^(B) a land flowing with milk and honey^(C)—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites^(D) and Jebusites.^(E)