Genesis 23:3-5

Expanded Bible

³ After a while he got up from the side of his ·wife’s body [^Ldead] and went to talk to the Hittites [^Cone of the many groups that made up the population of Canaan at the time, notable in that they were not Semitic as the others were]. He said, ⁴ “I am only a ·stranger [sojourner; wanderer; resident alien] and a ·foreigner [settler; ^Cthe combination of terms indicates a resident alien] here. Sell me some ·of your land [property for a burial place] so that I can bury my ·dead wife [^Ldead].”

⁵ The Hittites answered Abraham,