“to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.””
Genesis 23:9
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Why did Abraham insist on the full price?
Abraham insisted on paying in full so the ground would be his beyond dispute, bought in public before witnesses on the strength of what God had said about the land. Before Ephron offered anything, Abraham had already asked for the cave "for full price" (Genesis 23:9). The Hebrew is bekhesef male, literally in full silver, from male (H4392), full. Four hundred shekels is about four and a half kilograms of silver, a sum the whole gate could watch go onto the scales.
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