Genesis 23:4
I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.
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In Context
3And Abraham came from his dead and said to the children of Heth,
5And in answer the children of Heth said to Abraham,
Cross References
Genesis 17:8And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
Genesis 49:30In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place.
Leviticus 25:23No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.
Job 30:23For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
Psalms 105:12When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 23:4-16
The Cave of Machpelah. ( b. c. 1857.) 3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, 6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. 7 And… Read the whole commentary →