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Genesis 23:4

American Standard Version

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.

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Genesis 23:4 in other translations

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Genesis 23:4 · World English Bible

Genesis 23:4 in context

  1. 2And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
  2. 3And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spake unto the children of Heth, saying,
  3. 4I 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.
  4. 5And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
  5. 6Hear us, my lord; thou art a prince of God among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.