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Sforno on Genesis 49:30/ספורנו על בראשית מ״ט:ל׳
אאֲשֶׁר קָנָה אַבְרָהָם. מִפְּנֵי שֶׁיָּשְׁבוּ בְּאֶרֶץ אַחֶרֶת יָמִים וְשָׁנִים, הוֹדִיעָם אֶת קִנְיַן אַבְרָהָם לַאֲחֻזַּת קֶבֶר מֵאֵת עֶפְרוֹן וּמֵאֵת בְּנֵי חֵת, וְשֶׁכְּבָר קָבְרוּ שָׁם הוּא וּשְׁנֵי דוֹרוֹת קוֹדְמִים, בְּאֹפֶן שֶׁלֹּא יוּכַל אָדָם לְעַרְעֵר.
1אשר קנה אברהם, seeing that they had already spent many years in a foreign land, he felt it necessary to remind them that that burial plot was legally theirs. Seeing that already two generations of the patriarchs had been buried there, there was no legal way anyone could now challenge the ownership of this cave.