King James Version (KJV)
Genesis 23:5
“And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,”
Verse in context — Genesis 23
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And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
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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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And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
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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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And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, [even] to the children of Heth.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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