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Genesis 23:4

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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.

I am a stranger {H1616} and a sojourner {H8453} with you: give {H5414} me a possession {H272} of a buryingplace {H6913} with you, that I may bury {H6912} my dead {H4191} out of my sight {H6440}.

"I am a foreigner living as an alien with you; let me have a burial site with you, so that I can bury my dead wife.

“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

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Cross-References

  • Hebrews 11:9 (6 votes)

    By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

  • 1 Chronicles 29:15 (6 votes)

    For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.

  • Genesis 17:8 (5 votes)

    And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

  • Psalms 119:19 (4 votes)

    ¶ I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

  • Acts 7:5 (3 votes)

    And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not [so much as] to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when [as yet] he had no child.

  • Hebrews 11:13 (3 votes)

    These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

  • Hebrews 11:16 (3 votes)

    But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.