Genesis 23:3 meaning and explanation
Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
Genesis 23:3, Berean Standard Bible
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Abraham has just lost Sarah, and now he rises from mourning to negotiate with the Hittites, the people among whom he lives as a resident alien. The verse marks a turn from private grief to public action: he must secure a burial place, since he owns no land in Canaan.
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