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The Hittites responded to Abraham, “Listen to us, sir.[a] You are a mighty prince[b] among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial tombs. None of us would refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.”

Abraham rose and bowed before the Hittites, the people of the land,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 23:6 Lit. us, my lord
  2. Genesis 23:6 MT reads a prince of God; LXX reads a king of God