Show Don't Tell: Genesis 23:1-20

Instead of saying "Sarah died and Abraham bought a burial plot," let them feel the first death in the family of promise. Sarah: 127 years old. The one who laughed, who doubted, who bore the impossible son. Gone. Watch Abraham weep over her body, then rise to negotiate. A foreigner buying land from locals—every word carefully chosen. "Sell me property for a burial site." Ephron offers it free, but Abraham insists on paying full price—four hundred shekels of silver. Why? Because this cave in Machpelah is the first piece of the promised land Abraham will actually own. The deed to his wife's grave is the down payment on a nation.