23:7 Abraham got up and bowed down to the local people, 1 the sons of Heth.
23:12 Abraham bowed before the local people 23:13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay 2 to you the price 3 of the field. Take it from me so that I may 4 bury my dead there.”
1 tn Heb “to the people of the land” (also in v. 12).
2 tn Heb “give.”
3 tn Heb “silver.”
4 tn After the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose or result.