Genesis 23:4
I 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.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
3And Abraham rose up from the presence of his dead, and spake with the sons of Hittah, saying,
5And the sons of Hittah answered Abraham, saying to him,
Cross References
Genesis 17:8And I will give to thee and to thy sons after thee the land of thy habitation, all the land of Kenaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be unto them Eloha.
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.
Leviticus 25:23But you may not sell the ground absolutely: for the land is Mine, for you are guests and sojourners before Me;
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 →