Ephron answered: answered may have to be adjusted to say, for example, “Ephron then said” or “This time Ephron came back with….”
Quoted with permission from Reyburn, William D. and Fry, Euan McG. A Handbook on Genesis. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1997. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .