Genesis 23:4
I 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.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
3And Abraam stood up from before his dead; and Abraam spoke to the sons of Chet, saying,
5And the sons of Chet answered to Abraam, saying, Not so, Sir,
Cross References
Genesis 17:8And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou sojournest, even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God.
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.
Leviticus 25:23And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because ye are strangers and sojourners before me.
Job 30:23For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.
Psalms 105:12Then they believed his words, and celebrated his praise.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth 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 →