What happensPermalink
Abraham buys a plot of land with a tomb in which to bury Sarah. He buys it from Ephron the Hittite for four hundred shekels of silver.
Why it mattersPermalink
The dead are always buried in the ancestral homeland—centuries later, the Israelites will take Joseph’s bones with them out of Egypt—so Abraham burying Sarah here shows he has fully adopted Canaan as his new homeland.
Key versePermalink
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.