Genesis 23:4

Tree of Life Version

“I am an outsider and a sojourner among you. Give me a gravesite among you so that I may bury my dead from before my presence.”

Cross References

Genesis 17:8

I will give to you and to your seed after you the land where you are an outsider —the whole land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

Genesis 23:5

The sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourn are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. Moreover, the days of the years of my life have not attained the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojourn.”

Genesis 49:30

in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, that is next to Mamre in the land of Canaan—the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a property for burial.

Genesis 50:13

His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, the field that Abraham bought as a property for burial from Ephron the Hittite, next to Mamre.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, mere transients like our fathers. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, without security.

Job 30:23

For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all the living.

Psalm 119:19

I am a temporary dweller on earth— do not hide Your mitzvot from me.

Psalm 39:12

With rebukes You chasten one for iniquity and You consume like a moth what he finds pleasure in. Surely all humanity is but a vapor. Selah

Exodus 2:22

She gave birth to a son and he named him Gershom, saying, “I have been an outsider in a foreign land.”

Ecclesiastes 12:5

when they also are afraid of heights and of dangers on the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry fails to excite— for a man is going to his eternal home, and mourners go about in the street—

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Even if a man should father a hundred children and live many years, however many the days of his years may be, yet his soul is never satisfied with his prosperity and he does not have a proper burial, then I say that it is better for the stillborn than him.

Leviticus 25:23

“Moreover, the land is not to be sold ­permanently, because the land is Mine. For you are sojourners with Me.

Acts 7:16

They were carried to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Acts 7:5

He gave him no inheritance in it—not even a foothold—yet He promised ‘to give it to him as a possession to him and to his descendants after him,’ even though he had no child.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he migrated to the land of promise as if it were foreign, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob—fellow heirs of the same promise.

1 Peter 2:11

Loved ones, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to keep away from the fleshly cravings that war against the soul.