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Genesis 23:5

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The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

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Genesis 23:5 in other translations

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

Genesis 23:5 · American Standard Version

Genesis 23:5 in context

  1. 3Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,
  2. 4“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
  3. 5The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
  4. 6“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”
  5. 7Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.