“The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.”
The field and the cave in it were bought from the Hittites. The legal precision — bought from the Hittites — is the covenant family's insistence on the legitimacy of the title. They own this ground; they bought it; they have the deed. The application: the covenant community's claim to the burial ground is a legal claim, honestly purchased, not a claim of conquest.
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