"I am a strangerand a sojourneramongyou; giveme a burialsiteamongyou that I may burymy deadout of my sight."
"I will giveto you and to your descendantsafteryou, the landof your sojournings,allthe landof Canaan,for an everlastingpossession;and I will be their God."
The sonsof HethansweredAbraham,sayingto him,
By the sweatof your faceYou will eatbread,Tillyou returnto the ground,Becausefrom it you were taken;For you are dust,And to dustyou shall return."
So Jacobsaidto Pharaoh,"The yearsof my sojourningare one hundredand thirty;fewand unpleasanthave beenthe yearsof my life,norhave they attainedthe yearsthat my fatherslivedduring the daysof their sojourning."
in the cavethat is in the fieldof Machpelah,whichis beforeMamre,in the landof Canaan,whichAbrahamboughtalong with the fieldfrom Ephronthe Hittitefor a burialsite.
for his sonscarriedhim to the landof Canaanand buriedhim in the caveof the fieldof MachpelahbeforeMamre,whichAbrahamhad boughtalong with the fieldfor a burialsitefrom Ephronthe Hittite.
"For we are sojournersbeforeYou, and tenants,as allour fatherswere; our dayson the earthare like a shadow,and thereis nohope.
"For I knowthat You will bringme to deathAnd to the houseof meetingfor allliving.
I am a strangerin the earth;Do not hideYour commandmentsfrom me.
"Hearmy prayer,O LORD,and giveearto my cry;Do not be silentat my tears;For I am a strangerwith You, A sojournerlike allmy fathers.
Then she gavebirthto a son,and he namedhim Gershom,for he said,"I have beena sojournerin a foreignland."
Furthermore,men are afraidof a highplace and of terrorson the road;the almondtreeblossoms,the grasshopperdragshimself along, and the caperberryis ineffective.For mangoesto his eternalhomewhile mournersgoaboutin the street.
then the dustwill returnto the earthas it was, and the spiritwill returnto Godwhogaveit.
Ifa manfathersa hundred[children] and livesmanyyears,however manythey be, but his soulis not satisfiedwith goodthingsand he does not evenhavea [proper] burial,[then] I say,"Betterthe miscarriagethanhe,
The land,moreover, shall not be soldpermanently,for the landis Mine; for you are [but] aliensand sojournerswith Me.
"[From there] they were removedto Shechemand laidin the tombwhichAbrahamhad purchasedfor a sumof moneyfrom the sonsof Hamorin Shechem.
"But He gavehim noinheritancein it, not evena footof ground,and [yet], even when he had nochild,He promisedthat HE WOULD GIVEIT TO HIM AS A POSSESSION,AND TO HIS DESCENDANTSAFTERHIM.
By faithhe lived as an alienin the landof promise,as in a foreign[land], dwellingin tentswith Isaacand Jacob,fellow heirsof the samepromise;
Beloved,I urgeyou as aliensand strangersto abstainfrom fleshlylustswhichwage waragainstthe soul.
