Genesis 23:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

To Abraham as a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

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  • Gen 34:20 : 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,
  • Ruth 4:1 : 1 Then Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, 'Come over here, sit down.' So he turned aside and sat down.
  • Jer 32:12 : 12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison.

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  • Gen 23:19-20
    2 verses
    87%

    19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan.

    20 So the field and the cave that is in it were deeded to Abraham by the sons of Heth as a possession for a burial place.

  • Gen 23:3-17
    15 verses
    85%

    3 And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,

    4 I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a possession of a burial place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

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

    6 Hear us, my lord: you are a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our sepulchres bury your dead; none of us will withhold from you his sepulchre, that you may bury your dead.

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

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

    9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns, which is at the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it to me for a possession of a burial place among you.

    10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

    11 No, my lord, hear me; I give you the field, and the cave that is in it, I give it to you; in the presence of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.

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

    13 And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, But if you will give it, I pray you, hear me; I will give you money for the field; take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.

    14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

    15 My lord, listen to me; the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that between me and you? Therefore, bury your dead.

    16 And Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

    17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field and the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, which were within all its borders, were deeded

  • Gen 49:29-30
    2 verses
    80%

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

    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 burial place.

  • Gen 49:32
    78%

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

  • Gen 25:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9 And 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;

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

  • Gen 50:13
    73%

    13 For 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 burying place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

  • Gen 25:5
    71%

    5 And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

  • Gen 20:15
    71%

    15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you: live where it pleases you.

  • Gen 12:6
    69%

    6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

  • Gen 13:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.

    18 Then Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelled in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 16:18
    69%

    18 Saying, 'To you will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;'

  • Gen 18:18
    68%

    18 Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

  • Gen 33:19
    68%

    19 And he bought a piece of land where he had pitched his tent, from the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.

  • Acts 7:16
    68%

    16 And were carried over into Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem.

  • Gen 14:24
    68%

    24 except only what the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion."

  • Gen 17:8
    68%

    8 And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

  • Gen 18:1
    68%

    1 And the LORD appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

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