the cave in the field of Machpelah, facing on Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground.
Thus the field with its cave was transferred from the Hittites to Abraham as a burial place.
Then he left the side of his deceased wife and addressed the Hittites:
“Although I am a resident alien among you, sell me from your holdings a burial place, that I may bury my deceased wife.”
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, son of Zohar the Hittite, which faces Mamre,