Genesis 23:4
'A sojourner and a settler I [am] with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
3And Abraham riseth up from the presence of his dead, and speaketh unto the sons of Heth, saying,
5And the sons of Heth answer Abraham, saying to him,
Cross References
Genesis 17:8and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'
Genesis 49:30in the cave which [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] on the front of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place;
Leviticus 25:23'And the land is not sold — to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for sojourners and settlers [are] ye with Me;
Job 30:23For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living.
Psalms 105:12In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he [is] the untimely birth.'
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 →