“I am a foreign resident among you.(A) Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”[a](B)

The Hittites replied to Abraham,[b] “Listen to us, lord.[c] You are God’s chosen one[d] among us. Bury your dead in our finest burial place.[e] None of us will withhold from you his burial place for burying your dead.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 23:4 Lit dead from before me
  2. Genesis 23:5 Lit Abraham, saying to him
  3. Genesis 23:6 Lit my lord
  4. Genesis 23:6 Or prince of God, or mighty prince
  5. Genesis 23:6 Or finest graves

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