Read Genesis 23.1-20 Abraham buys a piece of the promised land.
Sarah dies and Abraham buys a cave and field in Canaan as a burial place for her.
In the indirect style of Near Eastern bargaining, the Hittites' extravagant offers of generosity
(vv. 6, 11, 15) mean that the price Abraham will have to pay for the land will be very high.
But, in the end, Abraham does hold title to at least a small piece of the land God
had promised (15.18-21).
In verse 15 four hundred shekels of silver is a very high price for the field.
The prophet Jeremiah bought a field for only seventeen shekels (Jer 32.9).
In verse 19 the land becomes the burial place for Sarah.
It will also be the burial place for Abraham (25.8-10), Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and Leah (49.29-31).
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