“And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.”
So the field and the cave in it were deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site. The narrative closes the transaction with the same legal language with which it was opened — the cave is formally recorded as Abraham's property. Genesis 50:13 will record Jacob buried in the same cave; Joshua 14:15 will later confirm Hebron's significance. The deeded burial site is the one piece of the covenant that Abraham holds in title during his lifetime — the beginning of the inheritance, purchased with grief and four hundred shekels of silver. The application: the first installment of a great inheritance is often small, expensive, and won in a season of grief. Do not despise the small beginning.
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