Genesis 23:6
Hear us, adoni: thou art a nasi Elohim among us; in the choice of kevareinu bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his kever, that thou mayest bury thy dead.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
5And the bnei Chet answered Avraham, saying unto him,
7And Avraham stood up, and bowed himself to the am ha'aretz, even to the bnei Chet.
Cross References
Genesis 13:2And Avram was very rich in cattle, in kesef, and in zahav.
Genesis 18:12Therefore Sarah laughed [titzchak, sounds like Yitzchak] within herself, saying, After I am grown old shall I have pleasure, adoni being old also?
Genesis 24:18And she said, Drink, adoni: and she hasted, and let down her jug upon her yad, and gave him drink.
Genesis 31:35And she said to her av, Let it not displease adoni that I cannot rise up in thy presence; for the derech nashim is upon me. And he searched but found not the terafim.
Genesis 32:18And he commanded the rishon, saying, When Esav achi meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? And to where goest thou? And whose are these [animals] before thee?
Genesis 44:5Is not this it in which adoni drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? Ye have done ra'ah in so doing.
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 →