Genesis 23:4

Free Bible Version

“I am a foreigner, a stranger living among you,” he said. “Please let me buy a burial site so I can bury my dead wife.”

Cross References

Genesis 17:8

I will give you and your descendants the whole country of Canaan—where you've been living as a foreigner—as land to own forever, and I will be their God.”

Genesis 23:5

The Hittites answered Abraham, telling him,

Genesis 3:19

You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”

Genesis 47:9

“I have been wandering for 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My life has been short and difficult—I have not lived as long as my forefathers who also wandered from place to place.”

Genesis 49:30

This is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, that Abraham bought together with the field from Ephron the Hittite to own as a burial site.

Genesis 50:13

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

1 Chronicles 29:15

In your eyes we are strangers and foreigners, just like our forefathers. Our time here on earth passes like a shadow, we have no hope of staying here long.

Job 30:23

I know you're taking me to my death, to the place where all the living go.

Psalm 119:19

I'm only here for a short time—don't let me miss what you have to say.

Psalm 39:12

Please hear my prayer, Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Don't be deaf to my weeping. Please treat me as your guest, passing through, just like my forefathers.

Exodus 2:22

She had a son, and Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I'm an exile living in a foreign country.”

Ecclesiastes 12:5

Before you develop a fear of heights and worry about going out on the streets; when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper crawls along, and desire fails, for everyone has to go to their eternal home as the mourners go up and down the street.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust returns to the earth from which it came, and the breath of life returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man could have one hundred children, and grow old, but it wouldn't matter how long his life was if he couldn't enjoy it and at the end receive a decent burial. I would say that a stillborn child would be better off than him.

Leviticus 25:23

Land must not be permanently sold, because it really belongs to me. To me you are only foreigners and travelers passing through.

Acts 7:16

Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought with silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Acts 7:5

God didn't give Abraham an inheritance here, not even one square foot. But God did promise Abraham that he would give him and his descendants possession of the land, even though he had no children.

Hebrews 11:9

Trusting in God he lived in the promised land—but as a foreigner, living in tents, together with Isaac and Jacob who shared with him in inheriting the same promise.

1 Peter 2:11

My friends, I'm pleading with you as foreigners and strangers in this world not to give in to physical desires that are in conflict with what is spiritual.