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Genesis 23:3

And Abraham stode vp from the coorse and talked with the sonnes of heth saynge:

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2and than dyed in a heade cyte called Hebron in the londe of Canaan. Than Abraham came to morne Sara and to wepe for her.

4I am a straunger ad a foryner amonge yow geue me a possession to bury in with you that I may bury my dead oute of my sighte.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:5And the children of heth answered Abraham saynge vnto him:

Genesis 25:10Which felde abraha boughte of the sonnes of Heth: There was Abraha buried and Sara hys wife.

Genesis 49:30in the double caue that is in the felde before Mamre in the lande of Canaan. Which felde Abraham boughte of Ephron the Hethite for a possessio to burye in.

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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