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Genesis 23:3-5
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3 Then Abraham got up from beside his deceased wife. He went and spoke to the descendants of Heth.[a] He said, 4 “I am an alien who has settled among you. Let me have a piece of property for a burial place among you where I may bury my dead in their final resting place.”[b] 5 The descendants of Heth answered Abraham,

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  1. Genesis 23:3 There is no known connection between these Canaanites (Genesis 10:15) and the later Indo-European Hittites of Anatolia (Turkey). The well-known Hittites of Anatolia did not actually call themselves Hittites but were given this name because of the mistaken belief that they were related to this people in the Bible.
  2. Genesis 23:4 Literally out of my sight, also in verse 8
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