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Genesis 23:3

Then Abraham got up from beside his wife's body and went to talk with the leaders of the Hittites.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2and then she died at Kiriath-arba (or Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went in to mourn her death and to weep over her.

4“I am a foreigner, a stranger living among you,” he said. “Please let me buy a burial site so I can bury my dead wife.”

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Cross References

Genesis 23:5The Hittites answered Abraham, telling him,

Genesis 25:10This was the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.

Genesis 49:30This is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, that Abraham bought together with the field from Ephron the Hittite to own as a burial site.

2 Samuel 23:39and Uriah the Hittite; a total of thirty-seven.

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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