And I wyll geue vnto thee and to thy seede after thee, the lande wherein thou art a strauger euen al the lande of Chanaan, for an euerlastyng possession, and wyll be their God.
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TSK · Genesis 23:4
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In the caue that is in the fielde of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the lande of Chanaan, which Abraham bought with the fielde of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to bury in.
The lande shall not be solde to waste: for the lande is myne, & ye be but staungers and soiourners with me.
Sure I am that thou wilt bryng me vnto death, euen to the lodging that is due vnto all men liuing.
When they were a fewe men in number, and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it:
If a man beget a hundred children, and lyue many yeres, so that his dayes are many in number, and yet can not enioy his good, neither be buryed: as for him I say, that vntymely birth is better then he.
Then shall the dust be turned agayne vnto earth from whence it came, and the spirite shall returne vnto God who gaue it.
By fayth he remoued into the lande of promise, as into a straunge countrey, whe he had dwelt in tabernacles, with Isaac and Iacob, heires with hym of the same promise:
Dearely beloued, I beseche you as straugers and pilgrimes, abstaine from fleshly lustes, whiche fight agaynst the soule: