I am a stranger, and a foreigner among you: give me a possession of burial with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Then the Hittites answered Abraham, saying unto him,

Hear us, my lord: thou art a prince [a]of God among us: in the chiefest of our sepulchers bury the dead: none of us shall forbid thee his sepulcher, but thou mayest bury thy dead therein.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 23:6 That is, godly or excellent: for the Hebrews so speak of all things that are notable, because all excellency cometh of God.

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