Genesis 23:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

I am a stranger, & a forreiner among you, giue me a possession of buriall with you, that I may burie my dead out of my sight.

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  • Gen 17:8 : 8 And I will giue thee and thy seede after thee the land, wherein thou art a stranger, euen all the land of Canaan, for an euerlasting possession, and I will be their God.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are stragers before thee, & soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, & there is none abiding.
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he abode in the land of promes, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promes.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Heare my prayer, O Lord, & hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger vpon earth: hide not thy commandements from me.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 Also the lande shall not be solde to be cut off from the familie: for the land is mine, and ye be but strangers and soiourners with me.
  • Gen 49:30 : 30 In the caue that is in the field of Machpelah besides Mamre in the land of Canaan: which caue Abraham bought with the fielde of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to burie in.
  • Acts 7:5 : 5 And hee gaue him none inheritance in it, no, not the bredth of a foote: yet he promised that he would giue it to him for a possession, and to his seede after him, when as yet hee had no childe.
  • Gen 50:13 : 13 For his sonnes caried him into the lande of Canaan, & buried him in the caue of the fielde of Machpelah, which caue Abraham bought with the fielde, to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite besides Mamre.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Iaakob sayd vnto Pharaoh, The whole time of my pilgrimage is an hundreth & thirty yeeres: fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life bene, and I haue not attayned vnto the yeeres of the life of my fathers, in the dayes of their pilgrimages.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou returne.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget an hundreth children and liue many yeeres, and the dayes of his yeeres be multiplied, & his soule be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an vntimely fruite is better then he.
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 Also they shalbe afraide of the hie thing, and feare shalbe in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grassehopper shall be a burden, and concupiscence shall be driuen away: for man goeth to the house of his age, and the mourners goe about in the streete.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And dust returne to the earth as it was, and the spirit returne to God that gaue it.
  • Ps 105:12-13 : 12 Albeit they were fewe in nomber, yea, very fewe, and strangers in the land, 13 And walked about from nation to nation, from one kingdome to another people,
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 All these died in faith, and receiued not the promises, but sawe them a farre off, and beleeued them, and receiued them thankefully, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things, declare plainely, that they seeke a countrey. 15 And if they had bene mindfull of that countrey, from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned. 16 But nowe they desire a better, that is an heauenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a citie.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearely beloued, I beseeche you, as strangers and pilgrims, absteine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule,

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  • Gen 23:5-15
    11 verses
    83%

    5Then the Hittites answered Abraham, saying vnto him,

    6Heare vs, my lorde: thou art a prince of God among vs: in the chiefest of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of vs shall forbid thee his sepulchre, but thou mayest bury thy dead therein.

    7Then Abraham stoode vp, and bowed him selfe before the people of the land of the Hittites.

    8And he communed with them, saying, If it be your minde, that I shall bury my dead out of my sight, heare me, and intreate for me to Ephron the sonne of Zohar,

    9That he would giue me ye caue of Machpelah, which he hath in the ende of his field: that he would giue it me for as much money as it is worth, for a possession to bury in among you.

    10(For Ephron dwelt among the Hittites) Then Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of all the Hittites that went in at the gates of his citie, saying,

    11No, my Lorde, heare me: the fielde giue I thee, and the caue, that therein is, I giue it thee: euen in the presence of the sonnes of my people giue I it thee, to bury thy dead.

    12Then Abraham bowed himselfe before the people of the land,

    13And spake vnto Ephron in the audience of the people of the countrey, saying, Seeing thou wilt giue it, I pray thee, heare me, I will giue the price of the fielde: receiue it of me, and I will bury my dead there.

    14Ephron then answered Abraham, saying vnto him,

    15My lord, hearken vnto me: ye land is worth foure hundreth shekels of siluer: what is that betweene me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

  • Gen 23:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2Then Sarah dyed in Kiriath-arba: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan; Abraham came to mourne for Sarah and to weepe for her.

    3Then Abraham rose vp from the sight of his corps, & talked with the Hittites, saying,

  • Gen 23:17-20
    4 verses
    80%

    17So the fielde of Ephron which was in Machpelah, and ouer against Mamre, euen the field and the caue that was therein, and all the trees that were in the fielde, which were in all the borders round about, was made sure

    18Vnto Abraham for a possession, in ye sight of the Hittites, euen of all that went in at the gates of his citie.

    19And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the caue of the fielde of Machpelah ouer against Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

    20Thus the fielde and the caue, that is therein, was made sure vnto Abraham for a possession of buriall by the Hittites.

  • Gen 49:29-32
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    29And he charged them & sayd vnto them, I am ready to be gathered vnto my people: burie mee with my fathers in the caue, that is in the fielde of Ephron the Hittite,

    30In the caue that is in the field of Machpelah besides Mamre in the land of Canaan: which caue Abraham bought with the fielde of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to burie in.

    31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife: there they buryed Izhak and Rebekah his wife: and there I buried Leah.

    32The purchase of the fielde and the caue that is therein, was bought of the children of Heth.

  • Gen 25:9-10
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    74%

    9And his sonnes, Izhak and Ishmael buryed him in the caue of Machpelah, in the fielde of Ephron sonne of Zohar the Hittite, before Mamre.

    10Which fielde Abraham bought of the Hittites, where Abraham was buryed with Sarah his wife.

  • Gen 50:13
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    13For his sonnes caried him into the lande of Canaan, & buried him in the caue of the fielde of Machpelah, which caue Abraham bought with the fielde, to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite besides Mamre.

  • Gen 17:8
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    8And I will giue thee and thy seede after thee the land, wherein thou art a stranger, euen all the land of Canaan, for an euerlasting possession, and I will be their God.

  • Gen 28:4
    72%

    4And giue thee the blessing of Abraham, euen to thee & to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest inherite the lande (wherein thou art a stranger,) which God gaue vnto Abraham.

  • Exod 6:4
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    4Furthermore as I made my couenant with them to giue them ye land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers:

  • Gen 47:30
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    30But when I shall sleepe with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury mee in their buryall; he answered, I will doe as thou hast sayde.

  • Gen 26:3
    70%

    3Dwell in this lande, and I will be with thee, and will blesse thee: for to thee, and to thy seede I will giue all these countreys: and I will performe the othe which I sware vnto Abraham thy father.

  • Gen 50:5
    70%

    5My father made me sweare, saying, Loe, I die, bury me in my graue, which I haue made me in the land of Canaan: now therefore let me go, I pray thee, & bury my father, & I wil come againe.

  • Gen 20:15
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    15And Abimelech saide, Beholde, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

  • Gen 21:23
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    23Nowe therefore sweare vnto me here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my children, nor my childrens children: thou shalt deale with me, and with the countrey, where thou hast bene a stranger, according vnto the kindnesse that I haue shewed thee.

  • Lev 25:23
    69%

    23Also the lande shall not be solde to be cut off from the familie: for the land is mine, and ye be but strangers and soiourners with me.

  • Gen 13:17
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    17Arise, walke through the land, in ye length thereof, and breadth thereof: for I will giue it vnto thee.

  • Acts 7:16
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    16And were remoued into Sychem, and were put in the sepulchre, that Abraham had bought for money of the sonnes of Emor, sonne of Sychem.

  • Lev 25:45
    69%

    45And moreouer of the children of the stragers, that are soiourners among you, of them shall ye bye, and of their families that are with you, which they begate in your lande: these shall be your possession.

  • Ps 119:19
    69%

    19I am a stranger vpon earth: hide not thy commandements from me.

  • Ezek 47:23
    68%

    23And in what tribe the stranger dwelleth, there shall ye giue him his inheritance, saith the Lorde God.

  • Gen 24:3
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    3And I will make thee sweare by ye Lorde God of the heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Canaanites among who I dwel.