Genesis 23:4

World English Bible (2000)

"I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

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  • Gen 17:8 : 8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners 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 from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
  • Acts 7:5 : 5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still 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 burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they 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 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Ps 105:12-13 : 12 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it. 13 They went about from nation to nation, 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 and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. 15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners 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%

    5 The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

    6 "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead."

    7 Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

    8 He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

    9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place."

    10 Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

    11 "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

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

    13 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

    14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

    15 "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."

  • Gen 23:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

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

  • Gen 23:17-20
    4 verses
    80%

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

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

    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 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.

  • Gen 49:29-32
    4 verses
    78%

    29 He instructed 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 from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.

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

    32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth."

  • Gen 25:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, 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 of the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

  • Gen 50:13
    72%

    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 burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

  • Gen 17:8
    72%

    8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."

  • Gen 28:4
    72%

    4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."

  • Exod 6:4
    71%

    4 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

  • Gen 47:30
    71%

    30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I will do as you have said."

  • Gen 26:3
    70%

    3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

  • Gen 50:5
    70%

    5 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"

  • Gen 20:15
    70%

    15 Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."

  • Gen 21:23
    70%

    23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

  • Lev 25:23
    69%

    23 "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

  • Gen 13:17
    69%

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

  • Acts 7:16
    69%

    16 and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

  • Lev 25:45
    69%

    45 Moreover of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.

  • Ps 119:19
    69%

    19 I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.

  • Ezek 47:23
    68%

    23 It shall happen, that in what tribe the stranger lives, there you shall give him his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Gen 24:3
    68%

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