Genesis 23:6 ASV

⁴  I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

⁵  And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,

⁶  Hear us, my lord. Thou art a prince of God among us. In the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead. None of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

⁷  And Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

⁸  And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,