Genesis 23:4 - The Scriptures 1998

“I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me property for a burial site among you, so that I bury my dead from my presence.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

American Standard Version (1901)

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Common English Bible

“I am an immigrant and a temporary resident with you. Give me some property for a burial plot among you so that I can bury my deceased wife near me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

"I am a newcomer and a sojourner among you. Give me the right of a sepulcher among you, so that I may bury my dead."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.

Genesis 23:4 Cross References

Genesis 17:8

“And I shall give to you and your seed after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Kenaʽ

Genesis 23:5

And the sons of Ḥ

Genesis 3:19

“By the sweat of your face you are to eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you return.”

Genesis 47:9

And Yaʽ

Genesis 49:30

in the cave that is in the field of Maḵ

Genesis 50:13

for his sons brought him to the land of Kenaʽ

1 Chronicles 29:15

“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.

Job 30:23

For I have known that You bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the earth; Do not hide Your commands from me.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O יהוה, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Exodus 2:22

And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gĕ

Ecclesiastes 12:5

furthermore, they are afraid of what is high, and of low places in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper becomes a burden, and desire perishes. For man is going to his everlasting home, and the mourners shall go about the streets.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to Elohim who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man brings forth a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his being is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a premature birth is better than he,

Leviticus 25:23

‘And the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine, for you are sojourners and settlers with Me.

Acts 7:16

and they were brought over to Sheḵ

Acts 7:5

“And He gave him no inheritance in it, not a foot of it. But He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

Hebrews 11:9

By belief, he sojourned in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Yitsḥ

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved ones, I appeal to you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts which battle against the life,