Manners and Customs of the Bible, 25. Middlemen
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Genesis 23:8. Entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar.
Abraham does not go directly to Ephron, but he gets some of the Hittites to plead for him. No business of importance can to this day be transacted in the East without middlemen.