After reading chapter 23:
*Sarah dies at 127 years of age at Hebron. Abraham went there to mourn for Sarah. It would seem he wasn't there when she died. He negotiated with a land owner named Ephron for land to bury Sarah.
He paid for a field and a cave, in the presence of witnesses. Abraham then buried Sarah in the cave.
*This passage makes a point of showing that Abraham owned that land, which probably means a question of ownership will come up later.
*It also makes a point of showing that this land belonged to the Hittites, who were Canaanites, according to Genesis 10:15. It is very unlikely that they are the same group of people known as the Hittites in history books.
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