Genesis 23:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Gen 10:15 : 15 ¶ And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
  • Gen 23:5 : 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
  • Gen 23:7 : 7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, [even] to the children of Heth.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
  • Gen 49:30 : 30 In the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
  • 1 Sam 26:6 : 6 ¶ Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
  • 2 Sam 23:39 : 39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
  • Gen 25:10 : 10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 23:4-20
    17 verses
    86%

    4I [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.

    5And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,

    6Hear 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.

    7And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, [even] to the children of Heth.

    8And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

    9That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which [is] in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.

    10And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, [even] of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

    11Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that [is] therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.

    12And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

    13And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou [wilt give it], I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead there.

    14And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

    15My lord, hearken unto me: the land [is worth] four hundred shekels of silver; what [is] that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

    16¶ And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant.

    17And the field of Ephron, which [was] in Machpelah, which [was] before Mamre, the field, and the cave which [was] therein, and all the trees that [were] in the field, that [were] in all the borders round about, were made sure

    18Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

    19And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan.

    20And the field, and the cave that [is] therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

  • Gen 25:8-10
    3 verses
    79%

    8Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full [of years]; and was gathered to his people.

    9And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre;

    10The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

  • Gen 23:2
    77%

    2And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

  • Gen 49:29-32
    4 verses
    75%

    29And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

    30In the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

    31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

    32The purchase of the field and of the cave that [is] therein [was] from the children of Heth.

  • Gen 50:13
    72%

    13For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

  • Gen 19:27
    70%

    27¶ And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:

  • Gen 17:3
    69%

    3And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

  • Gen 22:4
    69%

    4Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

  • Gen 17:22
    68%

    22And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.