Genesis 23:6
“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.”
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.
Note a mighty…: Heb. a prince of God
“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.”
Hear us, my lord; thou art a prince of God 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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- my lord
- Genesis 18:12; Genesis 24:18, 35; Genesis 31:35; Genesis 32:4, 5, 18; Genesis 42:10; Genesis 44:5, 8; Exodus 32:22; Ruth 2:13
- a mighty prince
- Heb. a prince of God.
- Genesis 21:22; Isaiah 45:14; 1 John 3:1, 2
- prince
- Genesis 13:2; Genesis 14:14; Genesis 24:35