He spoke to `Efron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, *But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.*
The bones of Yosef, which the children of Yisra'el brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shekhem, in the parcel of ground which Ya`akov bought of the sons of Chamor the father of Shekhem for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the inheritance of the children of Yosef.
Ga`al the son of `Eved said, Who is Avimelekh, and who is Shekhem, that we should serve him? Isn't he the son of Yerubba`al? and Zevul his officer? serve you the men of Chamor the father of Shekhem: but why should we serve him?