The dialogue that takes place in Parashat Hayyei Sarah between Avraham and the Hittites and between Avraham and Ephron is made up of repeated calls from all sides begging the other side to “hear me.”
“Hear us, my lord: you are the elect of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places; none of us will withhold his burial place from you for burying your dead.”
“Hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar.”
“No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field and I give you the cave that is in it.”