And I gave to thee and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings with all the land of Canaan for an eternal possession; and I was God to them.
Genesis 23:4 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 I am a sojourner and stranger with you: give me the possession of a grave with you, and I will bury my dead from my face. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. American Standard Version (1901) I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. Common English Bible “I am an immigrant and a temporary resident with you. Give me some property for a burial plot among you so that I can bury my deceased wife near me.” Catholic Public Domain Version "I am a newcomer and a sojourner among you. Give me the right of a sepulcher among you, so that I may bury my dead." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead. |
And I gave to thee and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings with all the land of Canaan for an eternal possession; and I was God to them.
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.
And Jacob will say to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning, thirty and a hundred years: little and evil were the days of the years of my life, and they reached not the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their sojournings.
In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamra in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite, for the possession of a grave.
And his sons will take him up to the land of Cannon, and they will bury him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for the possession of a grave, from Ephron the Hittites before Mamra.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
For I knew thou wilt turn me back to death, and the house appointed to all living.
I am a stranger in the earth, thou wilt not hide thy commands from me.
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry; thou wilt not be silent at my tears, for I a sojourner with thee, a dweller, as all my fathers.
And she will bear a son, and he will call his name Gershom; for he said, I was a sojourner in a strange land.
Also from height they shall be afraid, and being dismayed in the way, and the almond tree shall be despised, and the locust shall become a burden, and the caperberry shall fail: for man shall go to his eternal house, and they mourning, went about in the street:
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.
If a man shall beget a hundred, and live many years, and a multitude shall be the days of his years, and his soul shall not be satisfied from good, and also there was no burial to him; I said, Good above him an abortion.
And the land shall not be sold to be cut off, for the land is to me; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
And they transported him to Sychem and put him in the tomb which Abraham was satisfied with for a price of silver from the sons of Emmor of Sychem.
And he gave him none inheritance in it, not a step of the foot: and he promised to give it him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him.
By faith he dwelt in the land of promise, as a strange land, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise:
Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;