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“Although I am a resident alien[a] among you, sell me from your holdings a burial place, that I may bury my deceased wife.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 23:4 A resident alien: such a one would normally not have the right to own property. The importance of Abraham’s purchase of the field in Machpelah, which is worded in technical legal terms, lies in the fact that it gave his descendants their first, though small, land rights in the country that God had promised the patriarch they would one day inherit as their own. Abraham therefore insists on purchasing the field and not receiving it as a gift.

“I am a foreigner and stranger(A) among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.(B)

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13 Listen to my prayer, Lord, hear my cry;
    do not be deaf to my weeping!
For I am with you like a foreigner,
    a refugee, like my ancestors.(A)

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13 Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
    before I depart and am no more.”(A)

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