Genesis 23:3 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 23:3

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

BSB

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ASV

And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spake unto the children of Heth, saying,

KJV

And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Abraham stood up from before his dead - He had probably sat on the ground some days in token of sorrow, as the custom then was, (see Tobit 2:12, 13; Isa 47:1; and Gen 37:35); and when this time was finished he arose and began to treat about a burying place.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Abraham stood up, &c.--Eastern people are always provided with family burying-places; but Abraham's life of faith--his pilgrim state--had prevented him acquiring even so small a possession (Ac 7:5). spake unto the sons of Heth--He bespoke their kind offices to aid him in obtaining possession of a cave that belonged to Ephron--a wealthy neighbor.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּ֙קָם֙	vai.Ya.kom	and he arose	H6965 →
אַבְרָהָ֔ם	'av.ra.Ham	Abraham	H85 →
מֵעַ֖ל	me.'Al	from on	H5921 →
פְּנֵ֣י	pe.Nei	[the] face of	H6440 →
מֵת֑וֹ	me.To	dead his	H4191 →
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר	vay.da.Ber	and he spoke	H1696 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
בְּנֵי־	be.nei-	[the] people of	H1121 →
חֵ֖ת	chet	Heth	H2845 →
לֵאמֹֽר׃	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 26:6
And David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” “I will go with you,” answered Abishai.
leads to
- Judges 7:10–11
  But if you are afraid to do so, then go down to the camp with your servant Purah
Through
Genesis 27:46
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
leads to
- Genesis 26:34–35
  When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
- Genesis 24:3
  and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites…
- Genesis 28:8
  And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
- Genesis 34:1–2
  Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
Through
Genesis 10:15
And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
leads to
- Numbers 34:2–15
  “Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:
- Exodus 34:11
  Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- 1 Chronicles 1:13
  And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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About Genesis