Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
“I am
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.
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.
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.'
Themes
Abraham » He purchases a place for her burial, and buries her in a cave
Embalming » Unknown to early patriarchs
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 23:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Sarah's Death And Burial
3 And Abraham will rise up from the face of his dead, and speak to the sons of Heth, saying, 4 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. 5 And the sons of Heth will answer Abraham, saying to him,
Cross References
Genesis 17:8
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.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
Hebrews 11:9
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:
Genesis 49:30
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.
Leviticus 25:23
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.
Psalm 39:12
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.
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger in the earth, thou wilt not hide thy commands from me.
Acts 7:5
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.
Genesis 3:19
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.
Genesis 47:9
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.
Genesis 50:13
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.
Job 30:23
For I knew thou wilt turn me back to death, and the house appointed to all living.
Psalm 105:12-13
In their being men of number, as few and strangers in it.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
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.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
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:
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.
Hebrews 11:13-16
According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;