Genesis 23:6
“Hear us, my lord; a prince of God [are] you in our midst; in the choice of our burying-places bury your dead: none of our burying-places do we withhold from you, from burying your dead.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
5And the sons of Heth answer Abraham, saying to him,
7And Abraham rises and bows himself to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth,
Cross References
Genesis 13:2and Abram [is] exceedingly wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 18:12and Sarah laughs in her heart, saying, “After I have waxed old have I had pleasure? My lord [is] also old!”
Genesis 24:18and she says, “Drink, my lord”; and she hurries, and lets down her pitcher on her hand, and gives him drink.
Genesis 31:35and she says to her father, “Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise at your presence, for the way of women [is] on me”; and he searches, and has not found the teraphim.
Genesis 32:18Then you have said, Your servant Jacob’s: it [is] a present sent to my lord, to Esau; and behold, he also [is] behind us.”
Genesis 44:5Is this not that with which my lord drinks? And he observes diligently with it; you have done evil [in] that which you have done.”
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 →