“My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.”
Abraham agrees to the price and weighs out four hundred shekels of silver for Ephron according to the weight current among the merchants. The agreement is immediate and the payment is at the current market weight — Abraham does not negotiate down from the stated price, accepting it fully. The payment is witnessed, measured, and publicly completed. The application: once a fair price is named, paying it without further negotiation is the act of a person more interested in completing the transaction honorably than in winning the negotiation.
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