Genesis 23:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Gen 17:8 : 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.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with 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 burial place.
  • Acts 7:5 : 5 And He gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on; yet he promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him, when as yet he had no child.
  • Gen 50:13 : 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 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, yet his soul is not filled with good, and indeed he has no burial; I say, that a premature birth is better than he.
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 Also when they are afraid of what is high, and fears are in the way, and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper is a burden, and desire fails: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
  • Ps 105:12-13 : 12 When they were but a few men in number; yes, very few, and strangers in it. 13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. 15 And truly, if they had called to mind that country from which they had come, they might have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearly beloved, I urge you as strangers and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 23:5-15
    11 verses
    83%

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

    6Hear 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.

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

    8And 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,

    9That 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.

    10And 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,

    11No, 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.

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

    13And 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.

    14And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

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

  • Gen 23:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

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

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

  • Gen 23:17-20
    4 verses
    80%

    17So 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

    18To Abraham as a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

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

    20So 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 49:29-32
    4 verses
    78%

    29And 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,

    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 burial place.

    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 25:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    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 from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife.

  • 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 burying place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

  • Gen 17:8
    72%

    8And 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 28:4
    72%

    4And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you; that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.

  • Exod 6:4
    71%

    4And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, where they were strangers.

  • Gen 47:30
    71%

    30But I will lie with my fathers, and you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place. And he said, I will do as you have said.

  • Gen 26:3
    70%

    3Stay in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your descendants, I will give all these countries, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father;

  • Gen 50:5
    70%

    5My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I die: in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father, and I will come again.

  • Gen 20:15
    70%

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

  • Gen 21:23
    70%

    23Now therefore swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have sojourned.

  • Lev 25:23
    69%

    23The land shall not be sold forever: for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

  • Gen 13:17
    69%

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

  • Acts 7:16
    69%

    16And 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.

  • Lev 25:45
    69%

    45Moreover of the children of the strangers who dwell among you, from them shall you buy, and from their families that are with you, which they begot in your land: and they shall be your possession.

  • Ps 119:19
    69%

    19I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

  • Ezek 47:23
    68%

    23And it shall come to pass, that in whatever tribe the stranger resides, there you shall give him his inheritance, says the Lord GOD.

  • Gen 24:3
    68%

    3and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.