Genesis 23:3

And Abraham rose up from the presence of his dead, and spake with the sons of Hittah, saying,

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And Sarah died in Kiryath-arba, which is Hebron, in the land of Kenaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to lament her.

4I am a guest and a sojourner with you: give me the possession of a sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead from before me.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:5And the sons of Hittah answered Abraham, saying to him,

Genesis 25:10the field that Abraham bought from the sons of Hittah: there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife.

Genesis 49:30In the cavern which is in the double field over against Mamre, in the land of Kenaan, which field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hitaah for an inheritancesepulchre.

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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