Genesis 23:4

The Passion Translation

“I live as an alien and stranger among you. Sell me some of your property so I can use it as a burial site for my wife.”

Cross References

Hebrews 11:9

He lived by faith as an immigrant in his promised land as though it belonged to someone else. He journeyed through the land living in tents with Isaac and Jacob who were persuaded that they were also co-heirs of the same promise.

Genesis 17:8

I will give to you and your seed the land to which you have migrated. The entire land of Canaan will be yours and your descendants’ as an everlasting possession. And I will be their God forever!”

Psalm 119:19

My life on earth is so brief, so tutor me in the ways of your wisdom.

Acts 7:5

Although God gave him no parcel of land he could call his own, not even a footprint, yet he promised Abraham that he and his descendants would one day have it all. And even though as yet Abraham had no child,

Psalm 39:12

Lord, listen to all my tender cries. Read my every tear, like liquid words that plead for your help. I feel all alone at times, like a stranger to you, passing through this life just like all those before me.

Genesis 49:30

the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. My grandfather Abraham purchased that field as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

1 Peter 2:11

My divinely loved friends, since you are resident aliens and foreigners in this world, I appeal to you to divorce yourselves from the evil desires that wage war within you.

Genesis 50:13

and carried his body to the land of Canaan. They buried him there in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, where Abraham had purchased a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered, “My earthly journey has been one hundred and thirty years. My years have been few and hard, but it doesn’t compare to the length of the earthly journeys of my fathers.”

Genesis 3:19

You will painfully toil and sweat to produce food to eat, until your body—taken from the ground—returns to the ground. For you are from dust, and to dust you will return.”

Acts 7:16

Their bones were later carried back to the promised land and buried in Shechem, in the tomb Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor.

Genesis 23:5

“Hear us, my lord,” the Hittites answered, “you are a mighty prince of God among us. You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us would withhold our burial ground from you.”