King James Version (KJV)

Genesis 23:3

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

Verse in context — Genesis 23

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.

And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same [is] Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

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

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.

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

The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).