Genesis 23:6

World English Bible (2000)

"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."

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  • Gen 24:35 : 35 Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
  • Gen 14:14 : 14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
  • Gen 18:12 : 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
  • Gen 21:22 : 22 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.
  • Gen 24:18 : 18 She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.
  • Gen 13:2 : 2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
  • Gen 31:35 : 35 She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for I'm having my period." He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.
  • Gen 32:4-5 : 4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now. 5 I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
  • Gen 32:18 : 18 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"
  • Gen 42:10 : 10 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
  • Gen 44:5 : 5 Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"
  • Gen 44:8 : 8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
  • Exod 32:22 : 22 Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.
  • Ruth 2:13 : 13 Then she said, "Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens."
  • Isa 45:14 : 14 Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains; and they will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: 'Surely God is in you; and there is none else. There is no other god.
  • 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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  • Gen 23:3-5
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    85%

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

    4 "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."

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

  • Gen 23:7-20
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    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."

    16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.

    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
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    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 50:13
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    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 25:9-10
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    71%

    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 20:15
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    15 Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."

  • Gen 21:23
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    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."

  • Gen 50:5
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    37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you."

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    7 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

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    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.

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    28 They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

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    3 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

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    2 Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.

    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.

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    10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."

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    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."