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.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
3And Abraham stood up from before his dead; and Abraham spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
5And the sons of Heth answered to Abraham, 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 Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God.
Genesis 49:30in the double cave which is opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the cave which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a sepulcher.
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: 1 For the earth is the house appointed for every mortal. 1
Psalms 105:12Then they believed his words, 1 And celebrated his praise. 1
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, 1 Yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, 1 Yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, 1 And also he have no burial; 1 I said, An untimely birth is better than he. 1
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 →