Parallel Verses

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.

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."

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.

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."

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 over the face of his dead, - and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying; 4 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. 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 sojournings - all the land of Canaan, for an age-abiding possession - And I will be to them a God.

1 Chronicles 29:15

for, sojourners, are we before thee, and strangers, like all our fathers, - like a shadow, are our days upon the earth, and there is no hope.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith, he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land, in tents, dwelling, along with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;

Genesis 49:30

in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah which is over against Mamre, in the land of Canaan, - which Abraham bought, along with the field, from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace: -

Leviticus 25:23

The land moreover shall not be sold beyond recovery, for, mine, is the land, - for, sojourners and settlers, ye are with me.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, And, unto my cry for help, give ear, At my tears, do not be silent, - For, a sojourner, am, I, with thee, A stranger, like all my fathers.

Psalm 119:19

A sojourner, am, I, in the earth, Do not hide from me, thy commandments.

Acts 7:5

And gave him no inheritance therein, not even a place to set his foot on; and yet promised to give it unto him in possession, and unto his seed after him, when as yet he had not a child.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face, shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground, because therefrom, wast thou taken, - For, dust, thou art, And, unto dust, shalt thou return.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years, - Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.

Genesis 50:13

so his sons carried him to 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 buryingplace from Ephron the Hittite over against Mamre.

Job 30:23

For I know that, unto death, thou wilt bring me back, even unto the house of meeting for every one living.

Psalm 105:12-13

While as yet they were men easily counted, - A very few, and sojourners therein;

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!

Ecclesiastes 12:5

Yea, at what is high, they be in fear, and there be, terrors, in the way, and the almond be rejected, and the grasshopper drag itself along, and desire perish, - for man is going to his age-abiding home, when the wailers shall go round in the streets;

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust return to the earth, as it was, - and, the spirit, return unto God, who gave it.

Hebrews 11:13-16

In faith, all these died - not bearing away the promises, but, from afar, beholding and saluting them, and confessing that, strangers and sojourners, were they upon the land.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved! I exhort you, as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly covetings, such as take the field against the soul;

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