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“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.”

Genesis 23:6 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતીઉત્પત્તિ ૨૩:૬
“મારા માલિક, અમારું સાંભળ. અમારી મધ્યે તો તું ઈશ્વરના રાજકુમાર જેવો છે. જે જગ્યા તને પસંદ પડે ત્યાં અમારી કોઈપણ કબરમાં તારી મૃત પત્નીને દફનાવ. તેને દફનાવવાને માટે અમારામાંથી કોઈપણ પોતાની કબર આપવાની ના નહિ પાડે.”
हिन्दीउत्पत्ति २३:६
“हे हमारे प्रभु, हमारी सुन; तू तो हमारे बीच में बड़ा प्रधान है। हमारी कब्रों में से जिसको तू चाहे उसमें अपने मृतक को गाड़; हम में से कोई तुझे अपनी कब्र के लेने से न रोकेगा, कि तू अपने मृतक को उसमें गाड़ने न पाए।”

In context

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.”

5The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

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.”

7Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.

8He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

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