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Genesis 23:4

““I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.””

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²She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.

³Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,

⁴“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

⁵The Hittites replied to Abraham,

⁶“Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”

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