Genesis 23:3

And Abraam stood up from before his dead; and Abraam spoke to the sons of Chet, saying,

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And Sarrha died in the city of Arboc, which is in the valley, this is Chebron in the land of Chanaan; and Abraam came to lament for Sarrha and to mourn.

4I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying-place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:5And the sons of Chet answered to Abraam, saying, Not so, Sir,

Genesis 25:10even the field and the cave which Abraam bought of the sons of Chet; there they buried Abraam and Sarrha his wife.

Genesis 49:30in the double cave which is opposite Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, the cave which Abraam bought of Ephron the Chettite, for a possession of a sepulchre.

2 Samuel 23:39Urias the Chettite: thirty-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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