Genesis 23:4
I am a ger and a sojourner with you: give me an achuzzah (possession) of a kever with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3And Avraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke unto the bnei Chet, saying,
5And the bnei Chet answered Avraham, saying unto him,
Cross References
Genesis 17:8And I will give unto thee, and to thy zera after thee, the Eretz wherein thou art now a ger, kol Eretz Kena'an, for an Achuzzah (Possession) Olam (Everlasting); and I will be their Elohim.
Genesis 49:30In the me'arah that is in the sadeh of Machpelah, which is near Mamre, in Eretz Kena'an, which Avraham bought with the sadeh of Ephron the Chitti for an achuzzat kever (burial estate).
Leviticus 25:23HaAretz shall not be sold permanently: for HaAretz is Mine, for ye are gerim and toshavim with Me.
Job 30:23For I know that Thou wilt bring me down to mavet, 1 to the bais mo'ed l'khol chai. 1
Psalms 105:12When they were but few in mispar (number), 1 very few, and gerim (strangers) in it. 1
Ecclesiastes 6:3If an ish beget a hundredfold, and live shanim rabbot, so that rav be the yamim of his shanim, and his nefesh be not filled with hatovah, and also that he have no kevurah (grave); I say, that a nefel (stillborn) 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 →