“In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.”
The cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place. The specific legal description of the burial site — Machpelah, near Mamre, bought from Ephron — is the careful identification of the only piece of the promised land the covenant family owns. The application: the only land in Canaan that belongs to the covenant family is the burial cave — they own a place to die in the promised land before they own a place to live there.
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