Genesis 23:4
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.
KJV
Advena sum et peregrinus apud vos : date mihi jus sepulchri vobiscum, ut sepeliam mortuum meum.
Vulgate
Πάροικος καὶ παρεπίδημος ἐγώ εἰμι μεθ’ ὑμῶν· δότε οὖν μοι κτῆσιν τάφου μεθ’ ὑμῶν, καὶ θάψω τὸν νεκρόν μου ἐκεῖ.
LXX
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.
ASV
גֵּר וְ/תוֹשָׁ֥ב אָנֹכִ֖י עִמָּ/כֶ֑ם תְּנ֨וּ לִ֤/י אֲחֻזַּת קֶ֨בֶר֙ עִמָּ/כֶ֔ם וְ/אֶקְבְּרָ֥ה מֵתִ֖/י מִ/לְּ/פָנָֽ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§145The Letter to the Hebrews, in its great eulogy of the faith of Israel's ancestors, lays special emphasis on Abraham's faith: "By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was to go."4 By faith, he lived as a stranger and pilgrim in the promised land.5 By faith, Sarah was given t…
Cross-references
- 1Chr 21:23 — And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and t
- 1Chr 29:15 — For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
- Acts 7:5 — And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
- Gen 3:19 — In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Gen 17:8 — And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
- Gen 17:8 — And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
- Gen 37:1 — And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
- Gen 49:30 — In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
- Heb 11:9 — By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
- Heb 11:13 — These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eart
- Heb 11:13 — These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eart
- Lev 25:23 — The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- Lev 25:23 — The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- Ps 39:12 — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
- Ps 105:12 — When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
- Ps 119:19 — I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.