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.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Je suis étranger et habitant parmi vous; donnez-moi la possession d'un sépulcre chez vous, pour enterrer mon mort et l'ôter de devant moi.
KJV
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.
Philo Judaeus
De Confusione Linguarum
ις τῶν θνητῶν, ἀναστὰς ἀπὸ τοῦ νεκροῦ βίου καὶ τύφου· „πάροικος καὶ παρεπίδημός εἰμι ἐγὼ μεθ’ ὑμῶν„ (Gen. 23, 4), αὐτόχθονες δὲ ὑμεῖς, κόνιν καὶ χοῦν ψυχῆς προτιμήσαντες, προεδρίας ἀξιώσαντες ὄνομα Ἐφρών, ὃς ἑρμηνεύεται χοῦς. εἰκότως δὲ καὶ ὁ ἀσκητὴς Ἰακὼβ τὴν ἐν σώματι παροικίαν…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 134 (Migne)
egrini, et hospites erant, ut scriptum est: Peregrinus sum, sicut omnes patres mei (I Par. XXIX, 15; Gen. XXIII, 4; Psal. XXXVIII, 13) . Ubi autem confitetur Abraham quod peregrinus, et hospes sit, necesse est inquirere; fortassis enim etiam ipsum hoc confessum esse reperiemus. C…
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