Apologies for the long delay. But all of the cruelty and inhumanity in the Bible was depressing me and I couldn't stand to read any more for a while. But onward, to Genesis 23: Death & Real Estate. ...isn’t a big deal, he can. May be it’s a sense of fair play, maybe it’s a matter of legally owning land for once but ultimately Abraham pays the 400 silver shekels for the cave and the field it sits in