The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hun
So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.
“If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my beha