Genesis 23:4 meaning and explanation

“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

Genesis 23:4, Berean Standard Bible

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Abraham speaks these words to the Hittites after Sarah dies at Hebron. He calls himself a ger and a toshav, a resident foreigner and settler, though God had promised him the whole land.

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