“And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.”
Abraham weighs out the four hundred shekels of silver for Ephron in the hearing of the Hittites. The public weighing and witnessing is the legal completion of the sale. The four hundred shekels is a significant sum — approximately ten years' wages for a laborer at later rates. Abraham pays without complaint. The transaction is complete, witnessed, and permanent. The application: paying a fair price publicly and without complaint is the act of a person who understands that the thing being secured — a permanent, uncontested burial site — is worth what it costs.
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