Genesis 23:4

New Century Version

“I am only a stranger and a foreigner here. Sell me some of your land so that I can bury my dead wife.”

Cross References

Genesis 17:8

You live in the land of Canaan now as a stranger, but I will give you and your descendants all this land forever. And I will be the God of your descendants.”

Genesis 23:5

The Hittites answered Abraham,

Genesis 3:19

You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust.”

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to him, “My life has been spent wandering from place to place. It has been short and filled with trouble—only one hundred thirty years. My ancestors lived much longer than I.”

Genesis 49:30

That cave is in the field of Machpelah east of Mamre in the land of Canaan. Abraham bought the field and cave from Ephron the Hittite for a burying place.

Genesis 50:13

They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried it in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre. Abraham had bought this cave and field from Ephron the Hittite to use as a burial place.

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are like foreigners and strangers, as our ancestors were. Our time on earth is like a shadow. There is no hope.

Job 30:23

I know you will bring me down to death, to the place where all living people must go.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger on earth. Do not hide your commands from me.

Psalm 39:12

“Lord, hear my prayer, and listen to my cry. Do not ignore my tears. I am like a visitor with you. Like my ancestors, I’m only here a short time.

Exodus 2:22

Zipporah gave birth to a son. Moses named him Gershom, because Moses was a stranger in a land that was not his own.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

You will fear high places and will be afraid to go for a walk. Your hair will become white like the flowers on an almond tree. You will limp along like a grasshopper when you walk. Your appetite will be gone. Then you will go to your everlasting home, and people will go to your funeral.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

You will turn back into the dust of the earth again, but your spirit will return to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man might have a hundred children and live a long time, but what good is it if he can’t enjoy the good God gives him or have a proper burial? I say a baby born dead is better off than he is.

Leviticus 25:23

“ ‘The land really belongs to me, so you can’t sell it for all time. You are only foreigners and travelers living for a while on my land.

Acts 7:16

Later their bodies were moved to Shechem and put in a grave there. (It was the same grave Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.)

Acts 7:5

God did not give Abraham any of this land, not even a foot of it. But God promised that he would give this land to him and his descendants, even before Abraham had a child.

Hebrews 11:9

It was by faith that he lived like a foreigner in the country God promised to give him. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had received that same promise from God.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, you are like foreigners and strangers in this world. I beg you to avoid the evil things your bodies want to do that fight against your soul.