Genesis 23:4 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁴ “I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, 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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ 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 will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

Genesis 23:5

The Hittites answered Abraham,

Genesis 3:19

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

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and 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 sojourning.”

Genesis 49:30

in the cave that is in the field at Mach-pelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

Genesis 50:13

for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field at Mach-pelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite, to possess as a burying place.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Job 30:23

Yea, I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner on earth; hide not thy commandments from me!

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears! For I am thy passing guest, a sojourner, like all my fathers.

Exodus 2:22

She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

Ecclesiastes 12:5

they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.

Leviticus 25:23

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

Acts 7:16

and they were carried 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

yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him in possession and to his posterity after him, though he had no child.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

1 Peter 2:11

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