That cave is in the field of Machpelah east of Mamre in the land of Canaan. Abraham bought the field and cave from Ephron the Hittite for a burying place.
So Abraham bought the field and the cave in it from the Hittites to use as a burying place.
After a while he got up from the side of his wife’s body and went to talk to the Hittites. He said,
“I am only a stranger and a foreigner here. Sell me some of your land so that I can bury my dead wife.”
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah in the field of Ephron east of Mamre. (Ephron was the son of Zohar the Hittite.)