Genesis 23:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Hear us, my lord; a prince of God `art' thou in our midst; in the choice of our burying-places bury thy dead: none of us his burying-place doth withhold from thee, from burying thy dead.'

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  • Gen 24:35 : 35 and Jehovah hath blessed my lord exceedingly, and he is great; and He giveth to him flock, and herd, and silver, and gold, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and camels, and asses;
  • Gen 14:14 : 14 And Abram heareth that his brother hath been taken captive, and he draweth out his trained domestics, three hundred and eighteen, and pursueth unto Dan.
  • Gen 18:12 : 12 and Abraham and Sarah `are' aged, entering into days -- the way of women hath ceased to be to Sarah;
  • Gen 21:22 : 22 And it cometh to pass at that time that Abimelech speaketh -- Phichol also, head of his host -- unto Abraham, saying, `God `is' with thee in all that thou art doing;
  • Gen 24:18 : 18 and she saith, `Drink, my lord;' and she hasteth, and letteth down her pitcher upon her hand, and giveth him drink.
  • Gen 13:2 : 2 and Abram `is' exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
  • Gen 31:35 : 35 and she saith unto her father, `Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise at thy presence, for the way of women `is' on me;' and he searcheth, and hath not found the teraphim.
  • Gen 32:4-5 : 4 and commandeth them, saying, `Thus do ye say to my lord, to Esau: Thus said thy servant Jacob, With Laban I have sojourned, and I tarry until now; 5 and I have ox, and ass, flock, and man-servant, and maid-servant, and I send to declare to my lord, to find grace in his eyes.'
  • Gen 32:18 : 18 then thou hast said, Thy servant Jacob's: it `is' a present sent to my lord, to Esau; and lo, he also `is' behind us.'
  • Gen 42:10 : 10 And they say unto him, `No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy food;
  • Gen 44:5 : 5 Is not this that with which my lord drinketh? and he observeth diligently with it; ye have done evil `in' that which ye have done.'
  • Gen 44:8 : 8 lo, the money which we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back unto thee from the land of Canaan, and how do we steal from the house of thy lord silver or gold?
  • Exod 32:22 : 22 and Aaron saith, `Let not the anger of my lord burn; thou -- thou hast known the people that it `is' in evil;
  • Ruth 2:13 : 13 And she saith, `Let me find grace in thine eyes, my lord, because thou hast comforted me, and because thou hast spoken unto the heart of thy maid-servant, and I -- I am not as one of thy maid-servants.'
  • Isa 45:14 : 14 Thus said Jehovah, `The labour of Egypt, And the merchandise of Cush, And of the Sebaim -- men of measure, Unto thee pass over, and thine they are, After thee they go, in fetters they pass over, And unto thee they bow themselves, Unto thee they pray: Only in thee `is' God, And there is none else, no `other' God.
  • 1 John 3:1-2 : 1 See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him; 2 beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

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  • Gen 23:3-5
    3 verses
    85%

    3And Abraham riseth up from the presence of his dead, and speaketh unto the sons of Heth, saying,

    4`A sojourner and a settler I `am' with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.'

    5And the sons of Heth answer Abraham, saying to him,

  • Gen 23:7-20
    14 verses
    83%

    7And Abraham riseth and boweth himself to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth,

    8and he speaketh with them, saying, `If it is your desire to bury my dead from before me, hear me, and meet for me with Ephron, son of Zoar;

    9and he giveth to me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which `is' in the extremity of his field; for full money doth he give it to me, in your midst, for a possession of a burying-place.'

    10And Ephron is sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answereth Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, of all those entering the gate of his city, saying,

    11`Nay, my lord, hear me: the field I have given to thee, and the cave that `is' in it, to thee I have given it; before the eyes of the sons of my people I have given it to thee -- bury thy dead.'

    12And Abraham boweth himself before the people of the land,

    13and speaketh unto Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, `Only -- if thou wouldst hear me -- I have given the money of the field -- accept from me, and I bury my dead there.'

    14And Ephron answereth Abraham, saying to him,

    15`My lord, hear me: the land -- four hundred shekels of silver; between me and thee, what `is' it? -- thy dead bury.'

    16And Abraham hearkeneth unto Ephron, and Abraham weigheth to Ephron the silver which he hath spoken of in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels, passing with the merchant.

    17And established are the field of Ephron, which `is' in Machpelah, which `is' before Mamre, the field and the cave which `is' in it, and all the trees which `are' in the field, which `are' in all its border round about,

    18to Abraham by purchase, before the eyes of the sons of Heth, among all entering the gate of his city.

    19And after this hath Abraham buried Sarah his wife at the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (which `is' Hebron), in the land of Canaan;

    20and established are the field, and the cave which `is' in it, to Abraham for a possession of a burying-place, from the sons of Heth.

  • Gen 49:29-32
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    73%

    29And he commandeth them, and saith unto them, `I am being gathered unto my people; bury me by my fathers, at the cave which `is' in the field of Ephron the Hittite;

    30in the cave which `is' in the field of Machpelah, which `is' on the front of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place;

    31(there 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 which `is' in it, `is' from Sons of Heth.'

  • Gen 50:13
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    13and his sons bear him away to the land of Canaan, and bury 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, on the front of Mamre.

  • Gen 25:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9And Isaac and Ishmael his sons bury him at the cave of Machpelah, at the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite, which `is' before Mamre --

    10the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth -- there hath Abraham been buried, and Sarah his wife.

  • Gen 20:15
    70%

    15and Abimelech saith, `Lo, my land `is' before thee, where it is good in thine eyes, dwell;'

  • Gen 21:23
    70%

    23and now, swear to me by God here: thou dost not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with thee thou dost with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.'

  • Gen 50:5
    69%

    5My father caused me to swear, saying, Lo, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there dost thou bury me; and now, let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and return;'

  • 2 Sam 19:37
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    37Let, I pray thee, thy servant turn back again, and I die in mine own city, near the burying-place of my father and of my mother, -- and lo, thy servant Chimham, let him pass over with my lord the king, and do thou to him that which `is' good in thine eyes.'

  • Gen 44:7
    69%

    7and they say unto him, `Why doth my lord speak according to these words? far be it from thy servants to do according to this word;

  • Acts 7:16
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    16and they were carried over into Sychem, and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in money from the sons of Emmor, of Sychem.

  • Gen 26:28
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    28And they say, `We have certainly seen that Jehovah hath been with thee, and we say, `Let there be, we pray thee, an oath between us, between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

  • Gen 18:3
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    3And he saith, `My Lord, if, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, do not, I pray thee, pass on from thy servant;

  • Gen 24:2-3
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    68%

    2and Abraham saith unto his servant, the eldest of his house, who is ruling over all that he hath, `Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh,

    3and I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou dost not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling;

  • Gen 34:10
    68%

    10and with us ye dwell, and the land is before you; dwell ye and trade `in' it, and have possessions in it.'

  • Gen 47:30
    68%

    30and I have lain with my fathers, and thou hast borne me out of Egypt, and buried me in their burying-place.' And he saith, `I -- I do according to thy word;'