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Genesis 23:4

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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.

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  1. Genesis 23:2

    And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

  2. Genesis 23:3

    And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

  3. Genesis 23:5

    And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,

  4. Genesis 23:6

    Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

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