Genesis 23:4 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁴ “I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ “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

⁴ "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."

Genesis 23:4 Cross References

Genesis 17:8

And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding; and I will be their God.”

Genesis 23:5

The Hittites answered Abraham,

Genesis 3:19

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

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

Genesis 49:30

in the cave in the field at Machpelah, near Mamre, in the land of Canaan, in the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

Genesis 50:13

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, the field near Mamre, which Abraham bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Job 30:23

I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Psalm 119:19

I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.

Exodus 2:22

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom; for he said, “I have been an alien residing in a foreign land.”

Ecclesiastes 12:5

when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets;

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may beget a hundred children, and live many years; but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life's good things, or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.

Acts 7:16

and their bodies were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Acts 7:5

He did not give him any of it as a heritage, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as his possession and to his descendants after him, even though he had no child.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.