“I am an alien residing among you.(A) Give me burial property among you so that I can bury my dead.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 23:4 Lit dead from before me

12 “Hear my prayer, Lord,
and listen to my cry for help;
do not be silent at my tears.(A)
For I am here with you as an alien,
a temporary resident like all my ancestors.(B)

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By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents as did Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise.(A)

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13 These all died in faith, although they had not received the things that were promised. But they saw them from a distance,(A) greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.(B)

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A Call to Good Works

11 Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles(A) to abstain(B) from sinful(C) desires that wage war against the soul.(D)

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