Parallel Verses

A Conservative 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.

New American Standard Bible

“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

“I am a foreign resident among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

International Standard Version

"I am an alien and an outsider among you. Give me a cemetery among you where I can bury my dead away from my presence."

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.

Amplified

“I am a stranger and a sojourner (resident alien) among you; give (sell) me property for a burial place among you so that I may bury my dead [in the proper manner].”

Bible in Basic English

I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest

Darby Translation

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead from before me.

Julia Smith Translation

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.

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"I [am] a stranger and an alien among you; give to me {my own burial site} among you so that I may bury my dead from before me.

Modern King James verseion

I am a stranger and a visitor with you. Give me a possession of a burying place with you, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"I am a stranger and a foreigner among you; give me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

NET Bible

"I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead."

New Heart English Bible

"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."

The Emphasized Bible

A sojourner and settler, am I with you, - Give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, That I may bury my dead, from before me.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

"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."

Youngs Literal Translation

A sojourner and a settler I am with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I am a stranger
גּיר גּר 
Ger 
Usage: 92

and a sojourner
תּשׁב תּושׁב 
Towshab 
Usage: 14

with you give
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

me a possession
אחזּה 
'achuzzah 
Usage: 66

קברה קבר 
Qeber 
Usage: 67

with you, that I may bury
קבר 
Qabar 
Usage: 133

my dead
מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Sarah's Death And Burial

3 And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, 4 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. 5 And the sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

Cross References

Genesis 17:8

And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he lived alien in the land of promise as a foreigner, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise.

Genesis 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 from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying place.

Leviticus 25:23

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the earth. Hide not thy commandments from me.

Acts 7:5

And he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep. And he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, although there was no child by him.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father

Genesis 50:13

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Job 30:23

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

Psalm 105:12-13

when they were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

yea, they shall be afraid of height, and terrors [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail, because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Hebrews 11:13-16

All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

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