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Genesis 23:3

And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

In Context

2And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.

4I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:5The children of Heth answered, saying:

Genesis 25:10Which he had bought of the children of Heth: there was he buried, and Sara his wife.

Genesis 49:30All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: these things their father spoke to them, and he blessed every one, with their proper blessings.

2 Samuel 23:39Urias the Hethite, thirty and seven in all.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 23:2-3

The Death of Sarah. ( b. c. 1857.) 1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. 2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. We have here, 1. Sarah's age, v. 1 . Almost forty years before, she had called herself old, ch. xviii. 12 . Old people will die never the sooner, but may die the better, for reckoning themselves old. 2. Her death, v. 2 . The longest liver must die… Read the whole commentary →

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