Genesis 23:4

The Scriptures 2009

I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me property for a burial-site among you, so that I bury my dead from my presence.

Cross References

Genesis 17:8

“And I shall give to you and your seed after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Kena‛an, as an everlasting possession. And I shall be their Elohim.”

Genesis 23:5

And the sons of Ḥĕth answered Aḇraham, saying to him,

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you are to eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you return.

Genesis 47:9

And Ya‛aqoḇ said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

Genesis 49:30

in the cave that is in the field of Maḵpĕlah, which is before Mamrĕ in the land of Kena‛an, which Aḇraham bought with the field of Ephron the Ḥittite as a possession for a burial-site.

Genesis 50:13

for his sons brought him to the land of Kena‛an, and buried him in the cave of the field of Maḵpĕlah, before Mamrĕ, which Aḇraham bought with the field from Ephron the Ḥittite as property for a burial-site.

1 Chronicles 29:15

“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.

Job 30:23

For I have known that You bring me to death, and to the house of appointment for all living.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the earth; Do not hide Your commands from me.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O יהוה, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.”

Exodus 2:22

And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gĕreshom, for he said, “I have become a sojourner in a foreign land.”

Ecclesiastes 12:5

furthermore, they are afraid of what is high, and of low places in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper becomes a burden, and desire perishes. For man is going to his everlasting home, and the mourners shall go about the streets.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to Elohim who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man brings forth a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his being is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial-place, I say that a premature birth is better than he,

Leviticus 25:23

‘And the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine, for you are sojourners and settlers with Me.

Acts 7:16

and they were brought over to Sheḵem and laid in the tomb that Aḇraham bought for a price of silver from the sons of Ḥamor, the father of Sheḵem.

Acts 7:5

“And He gave him no inheritance in it, not a foot of it. But He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

Hebrews 11:9

By belief, he sojourned in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Yitsḥaq and Ya‛aqoḇ, the heirs with him of the same promise,

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved ones, I appeal to you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts which battle against the being,