Genesis 23:4

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."

Cross References

Genesis 17:8

And I will give to you and to your offspring, the land of your sojourn, all the land of Canaan, as an eternal possession, and I will be their God."

Genesis 23:5

The sons of Heth responded by saying:

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return."

Genesis 47:9

He responded, "The days of my sojourn are one hundred and thirty years, few and unworthy, and they do not reach even to the days of the sojourning of my fathers."

Genesis 49:30

opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought, along with its field, from Ephron the Hittite, as a possession for burial.

Genesis 50:13

And carrying him into the land of Canaan, they buried him in the double cave, which Abraham had bought along with its field, from Ephron the Hittite, as a possession for burial, opposite Mamre.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners and new arrivals before you, as all our fathers were. Our days upon the earth are like a shadow, and there is no delay.

Job 30:23

I know that you will hand me over to death, where a home has been established for all the living.

Psalm 39:12

O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.

Exodus 2:22

And she bore a son to him, whom he called Gershom, saying, "I have been a newcomer in a foreign land." In truth, she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying, "For the God of my father, my helper, has rescued me from the hand of Pharaoh."

Ecclesiastes 12:5

Likewise, they will fear the things above them, and they will dread the way. The almond tree will flourish; the locust will be fattened; and the caper plant will scattered, because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall wander around in the street.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man were to produce one hundred children, and to live for many years, and to attain to an age of many days, and if his soul were to make no use of the goods of his resources, and if he were lacking even a burial: concerning such a man, I declare that a miscarried child is better than he.

Leviticus 25:23

Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.

Acts 7:16

And they crossed over into Shechem, and they were placed in the sepulcher which Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the son of Shechem.

Acts 7:5

And he gave him no inheritance in it, not even the space of one step. But he promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his offspring after him, though he did not have a son.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith, he stayed in the Land of the Promise as if in a foreign land, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise.

1 Peter 2:11

Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.