Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3And after he rose up from the funeral obsequies, he spoke to the children of Heth, saying:
5The children of Heth answered, saying:
Cross References
Genesis 17:8And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.
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.
Leviticus 25:23The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.
Job 30:23I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.
Psalms 105:12When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born 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 →