Genesis 23:6
“Listen, sir, you are a mighty prince among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you from burying your dead.”
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- Gen 24:35 : 35 “The LORD has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
- Gen 14:14 : 14 When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive, he mobilized his 318 trained men who had been born in his household, and he pursued the invaders as far as Dan.
- Gen 18:12 : 12 So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking,“After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?”
- Gen 21:22 : 22 At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham,“God is with you in all that you do.
- Gen 24:18 : 18 “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.
- Gen 13:2 : 2 (Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)
- Gen 31:35 : 35 Rachel said to her father,“Don’t be angry, my lord. I cannot stand up in your presence because I am having my period.” So he searched thoroughly, but did not find the idols.
- Gen 32:4-5 : 4 He commanded them,“This is what you must say to my lord Esau:‘This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now. 5 I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”
- Gen 32:18 : 18 then you must say,‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. In fact Jacob himself is behind us.’”
- Gen 42:10 : 10 But they exclaimed,“No, my lord! Your servants have come to buy grain for food!
- Gen 44:5 : 5 Doesn’t my master drink from this cup and use it for divination? You have done wrong!’”
- Gen 44:8 : 8 Look, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Why then would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?
- Exod 32:22 : 22 Aaron said,“Do not let your anger burn hot, my lord; you know these people, that they tend to evil.
- Ruth 2:13 : 13 She said,“You really are being kind to me, sir, for you have reassured and encouraged me, your servant, even though I will never be like one of your servants!”
- Isa 45:14 : 14 The Lord is the Nations’ Only Hope This is what the LORD says:“The profit of Egypt and the revenue of Ethiopia, along with the Sabeans, those tall men, will be brought to you and become yours. They will walk behind you, coming along in chains. They will bow down to you and pray to you:‘Truly God is with you; he has no peer; there is no other God!’”
- 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
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- Gen 23:3-53 verses85%
3Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and said to the sons of Heth,
4“I am a foreign resident, a temporary settler, among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”
5The sons of Heth answered Abraham,
- Gen 23:7-2014 verses83%
7Abraham got up and bowed down to the local people, the sons of Heth.
8Then he said to them,“If you agree that I may bury my dead, then hear me out. Ask Ephron the son of Zohar
9if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site.”
10(Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hittite replied to Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth– before all who entered the gate of his city–
11“No, my lord! Hear me out. I sell you both the field and the cave that is in it. In the presence of my people I sell it to you. Bury your dead.”
12Abraham bowed before the local people
13and said to Ephron in their hearing,“Hear me, if you will. I pay to you the price of the field. Take it from me so that I may bury my dead there.”
14Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
15“Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 400 pieces of silver, but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”
16So Abraham agreed to Ephron’s price and weighed out for him the price that Ephron had quoted in the hearing of the sons of Heth– 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.
17So Abraham secured Ephron’s field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border,
18as his property in the presence of the sons of Heth before all who entered the gate of Ephron’s city.
19After this Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah next to Mamre(that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
20So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth.
- Gen 49:29-324 verses73%
29Then he instructed them,“I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
30It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.
31There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah.
32The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.”
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13His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the field Abraham purchased as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.
- Gen 25:9-102 verses71%
9His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hittite.
10This was the field Abraham had purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.
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15Then Abimelech said,“Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.”
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23Now swear to me right here in God’s name that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants. Show me, and the land where you are staying, the same loyalty that I have shown you.”
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5‘My father made me swear an oath. He said,“I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”
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37Let me return so that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But look, here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever seems appropriate to you.”
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7They answered him,“Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
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16and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
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28They replied,“We could plainly see that the LORD is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us– between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you
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3He said,“My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.
- Gen 24:2-32 verses68%
2Abraham said to his servant, the senior one in his household who was in charge of everything he had,“Put your hand under my thigh
3so that I may make you solemnly promise by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.
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10You may live among us, and the land will be open to you. Live in it, travel freely in it, and acquire property in it.”
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30but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” Joseph said,“I will do as you say.”