Genesis 23:4

23:4 “I am a temporary settler ¹  among you. Grant ²  me ownership ³  of a burial site among you so that I may ⁴  bury my dead.” ⁵ 

Genesis 23:13

23:13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay ⁶  to you the price ⁷  of the field. Take it from me so that I may ⁸  bury my dead there.”

Genesis 48:7

48:7 But as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, Rachel died – to my sorrow ⁹  – in the land of Canaan. It happened along the way, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there on the way to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem). ¹⁰ 

Genesis 50:5

50:5 ‘My father made me swear an oath. He said, ¹¹  “I am about to die. Bury me ¹²  in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”

[23:4]  ¹ tn Heb “a resident alien and a settler.”

[23:4]  ² tn Heb “give,” which is used here as an idiom for “sell” (see v. 9). The idiom reflects the polite bartering that was done in the culture at the time.

[23:4]  ³ tn Or “possession.”

[23:4]  ⁴ tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose.

[23:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “bury my dead out of my sight.” The last phrase “out of my sight” has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[23:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “give.”

[23:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “silver.”

[23:13]  ⁸ tn After the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose or result.

[48:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “upon me, against me,” which might mean something like “to my sorrow.”

[48:7]  ¹² map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[50:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “saying.”

[50:5]  ¹⁷ tn The imperfect verbal form here has the force of a command.