Resource Management vs. Resource Consumption

Abraham wants to manage resources.  Look at what he does in Genesis 23:

3 And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke unto the children of Heth, saying: 
4 'I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.'  
5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him:
and later
13 And he spoke unto Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying: 'But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me: I will give the price of the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.' 
14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him: 

Abraham in this translation wants a 'possession'.  But is that the correct translation of the word 'אֲחֻזַּת' -- Achuza.  Possession has the connotation of ownership, Achuza refers to entitlement.

Later again the English translation employs the word 'possession': 
18 unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. 

But here the Hebrew word is 'מִקְנָה' -- 'Mikne'.  Mikne is an acquisition, something that leads to possession.

So the text is playing a game with us, utilizing the two Hebrew words,, Achuze and Mikne to leverage a distinction between resource consumption and resource management, between , acquisition and entitlement.

The text goes out of its way to describe the conversation.  He speaks and they answer.  The amazing thing is that the rest of the Parasha, the next few chapters echo this language.  Eliezer speaks.  Eliezer tells stories.  Laban answers.  The word 'ויען' -- 'VaYan', he answered is evident in the beginning with Abraham and in the following story with Eliezer.

Nothing is taken by force, not the land and not the wife.  Everything is done in a conversation.

Now compare that to Genesis 25:
20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.  

Isaac 'took' his wife, ,ויקח -- VaYikach.  To acquire.  Isaac is a man of few words.  Isaac is a man of action in Gensis 26:
12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him
Isaac does something that none of our other leaders do, he sows the land.