Genesis 23:4 · WEB
“"I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."”
— Genesis 23:4
Speaker
Abraham
Era
Patriarchs (~2000 BC)
Emotion
grieving
Type
narrative
Emotional genome
Comfort power
Quotability
Memorability
Crisis relevance
Standalone
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