We now continue in Genesis. Abraham is coming to the end of his life and the mantle passes on to Isaac. Sarah, Abraham's wife, has died, and he wants to bury her. He is still a stranger in the land promised to him by God. Abraham has earned a good reputation with the inhabitants of the land, and they want to give him the burial place, but he insists on buying it. This is an act of faith on Abraham's part, because he believes that one day the land will belong to his people.
In the end Abraham paid 400 pieces of silver for the land. The key thing is that it became a permanent possession for the Abraham's people. 400 shekels was actually a large price for a piece of land.
The key thing to learn from this is that Abraham is making decisions about his life based on the promises that God has made to him.
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