Genesis 23:4

Contemporary English Version 1995

“I live as a foreigner in your land, and I don't own any property where I can bury my wife. Please let me buy a piece of land.”

Cross References

Hebrews 11:9

Because Abraham had faith, he lived as a stranger in the promised land. He lived there in a tent, and so did Isaac and Jacob, who were later given the same promise.

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears.

Genesis 17:8

I will give you and them the land in which you are now a foreigner. I will give the whole land of Canaan to your family forever, and I will be their God.

Psalm 119:19

I live here as a stranger. Don't keep me from knowing your commands.

Acts 7:5

God didn't give him any part of it, not even a square meter. But God did promise to give it to him and his family forever, even though Abraham didn't have any children.

Psalm 39:12

“Listen, Lord, to my prayer! My eyes are flooded with tears, as I pray to you. I am merely a stranger visiting in your home as my ancestors did.

Leviticus 25:23

No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me—it isn't your land, and you only live there for a little while.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, you are foreigners and strangers on this earth. So I beg you not to surrender to those desires that fight against you.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

So our bodies return to the earth, and the life-giving breath returns to God.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

You will be afraid to climb up a hill or walk down a road. Your hair will turn as white as almond blossoms. You will feel lifeless and drag along like an old grasshopper. We each go to our eternal home, and the streets here are filled with those who mourn.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

You may live a long time and have a hundred children. But a child born dead is better off than you, unless you enjoy life and have a decent burial.

Job 30:23

Soon he will send me home to the world of the dead, where we all must go.

Genesis 50:13

They took him to Mamre in Canaan and buried him in Machpelah Cave, the burial place Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered, “I have lived only 130 years, and I have had to move from place to place. My parents and my grandparents also had to move from place to place. But they lived much longer, and their life was not as hard as mine.”

Genesis 3:19

You will sweat all your life to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil.”

Acts 7:16

Later their bodies were taken back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor.

Genesis 23:5

“Sir,” they answered, “you are an important man. Choose the best place to bury your wife. None of us would refuse you a resting place for your dead.”

Exodus 2:22

And when she had a son, Moses said, “I will name him Gershom, since I am a foreigner in this country.”