“And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.”
For a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent. The land purchase at Shechem parallels the land purchase at Machpelah in Genesis 23 — the covenant family buying the land of promise rather than receiving it as a gift. Joshua 24:32 records that Joseph's bones were eventually buried at Shechem. The application: the purchased land in Canaan is the covenant family's legal claim in the promised land, one transaction at a time.
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