Parallel Verses
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."
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.
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.
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 stood up from the corpse, and talked with the sons of Heth saying, 4 "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." 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Cross References
Genesis 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger: even all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and will be their God."
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he removed into the land that was promised him, as into a strange country, and dwelt in tabernacles: and so did Isaac, and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
Genesis 49:30
in the double cave that is in the field before Mamre in the land of Canaan. Which field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in.
Leviticus 25:23
Wherefore the land shall not be sold forever, because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and sojourners with me:
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and with thine ears consider my calling; hold not thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger upon earth; O hide not thy commandments from me.
Acts 7:5
and he gave him none inheritance in it - no, not the breadth of a foot - But promised that he would give it to him to possess and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return unto the earth whence thou wast taken: for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return."
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."
Genesis 50:13
And his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought with the field to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite before Mamre.
Job 30:23
Sure I am, that thou wilt deliver me unto death: whereas a lodging is prepared for all men living.
Psalm 105:12-13
When there was yet but a few of them - and they strangers in the land -
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundredth children, and live many years, so that his days are many in number, and yet cannot enjoy his good, neither be buried: as for him I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
When men shall fear in high places, and be afraid in the streets; when the Almond tree shall be despised, the grasshopper born out, and when great poverty shall break in; when man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.
Hebrews 11:13-16
And they all died in faith, and received not the promises: but saw them afar off, and believed them, and saluted them: and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul,