Jacob names the burial site with the precision of a deed. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan preserves the legal language. "In the cave that is in the Double Field over against Mamre in the land of Kenaan; for Abraham bought the field of Ephron the Hitah for an inheritance of burial" (Genesis 49:30).
The Aramaic insists on the word kinyan — legal acquisition. Abraham did not camp there. He did not claim it by force. He paid four hundred shekels of silver in the hearing of the city gate (Genesis 23:16). This was a public, notarized, irrevocable transaction. Hebron's first Jewish plot was acquired the way lawyers acquire land: in full view, with witnesses, for fair market value.
Why does Jacob dwell on these details from his deathbed? Because a covenant needs ground. Abraham's promise from God included the land of Canaan, and this cave was the first and only piece he actually owned. Burying Jacob there is not merely sentimental. It is a legal act reinforcing the family's claim to the land for every generation that will follow. The patriarchs chose Hebron as the anchor. Sarah, Abraham, Isaac, Rebekah, Leah, and now Jacob. The Targum is telling us: in Jewish history, the first piece of the Promised Land that truly belonged to Israel was a tomb.