Genesis 23:4

New American Bible - revised edition

“Although I am a resident alien among you, sell me from your holdings a burial place, that I may bury my deceased wife.”

Cross References

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise;

1 Chronicles 29:15

For before you we are strangers and travelers, like all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without a future.

Genesis 17:8

I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are now residing as aliens, the whole land of Canaan, as a permanent possession; and I will be their God.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

Acts 7:5

Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but he did promise to give it to him and his descendants as a possession, even though he was childless.

Psalm 39:12

You chastise man with rebukes for sin; like a moth you consume his treasures. Every man is but a breath. Selah

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold irrevocably; for the land is mine, and you are but resident aliens and under my authority.

Genesis 49:30

the cave in the field of Machpelah, facing on Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burial ground.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the life breath returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

When one is afraid of heights, and perils in the street; When the almond tree blooms, and the locust grows sluggish and the caper berry is without effect, Because mortals go to their lasting home, and mourners go about the streets;

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Should one have a hundred children and live many years, no matter to what great age, still if one has not the full benefit of those goods, I proclaim that the child born dead, even if left unburied, is more fortunate.

Job 30:23

Indeed I know that you will return me to death to the house destined for everyone alive.

Genesis 50:13

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, facing on Mamre, the field that Abraham had bought for a burial ground from Ephron the Hittite.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob replied: “The years I have lived as a wayfarer amount to a hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been these years of my life, and they do not compare with the years that my ancestors lived as wayfarers.”

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Acts 7:16

and were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor at Shechem.

Genesis 23:5

The Hittites answered Abraham: “Please,

Exodus 2:22

She conceived and bore a son, whom he named Gershom; for he said, “I am a stranger residing in a foreign land.” The Burning Bush.