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ויענו בני חת…<underline>לאמור לו</underline>. The Hittites answered, …<underline>to say to him.</underline> This means they appointed a single spokesman to speak on their behalf.

ויענו, they agreed by telling him so.

In the choicest of our grave sites. Because you are so respected you may have the best grave in the public cemetery, or else you may request the private plot of anyone in town. But it is against our custom to allow a sojourner to acquire a plot of his own.