The Hittites answered Abraham,
Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, then Heth,
Then Abraham left the side of his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites,
“I’m a stranger with no permanent home. Let me have some of your property for a tomb so that I can bury my dead wife.”
“Listen to us, sir. You are a mighty leader among us. Bury your dead in one of our best tombs. Not one of us will withhold from you his tomb for burying your dead.”
But now he lifts needy people high above suffering and makes their families like flocks.
