&#8220;I am a temporary settler<n id="1" /> among you. Grant<n id="2" /> me ownership<n id="3" /> of a burial site among you so that I may<n id="4" /> bury my dead.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Then he said to them, &#8220;If you agree<n id="1" /> that I may bury my dead,<n id="2" /> then hear me out.<n id="3" /> Ask<n id="4" /> Ephron the son of Zohar

Indeed,<n id="1" /> you had little before I arrived,<n id="2" /> but now your possessions have increased many times over.<n id="3" /> The <sc>Lordsc> has blessed you wherever I worked.<n id="4" /> But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

and said to Ephron in their hearing, &#8220;Hear me, if you will. I pay<n id="1" /> to you the price<n id="2" /> of the field. Take it from me so that I may<n id="3" /> bury my dead there.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, &#8220;You have brought ruin<n id="1" /> on me by making me a foul odor<n id="2" /> among the inhabitants of the land &#8211; among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I<n id="3" /> am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!&#8221;