Genesis 23:4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
4 “Although I am a resident alien[a] among you, sell me from your holdings a burial place, that I may bury my deceased wife.”(A)
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- 23:4 A resident alien: such a one would normally not have the right to own property. The importance of Abraham’s purchase of the field in Machpelah, which is worded in technical legal terms, lies in the fact that it gave his descendants their first, though small, land rights in the country that God had promised the patriarch they would one day inherit as their own. Abraham therefore insists on purchasing the field and not receiving it as a gift.
Psalm 39:13
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13 Listen to my prayer, Lord, hear my cry;
do not be deaf to my weeping!
For I am with you like a foreigner,
a refugee, like my ancestors.(A)
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