Read Genesis 23:1-20 at Bible Gateway.
The teaching tools of scripture
Gen 1:1-2:3 and the teaching tools of scripture part one and part two
Gen 1:1-6:8 and finding the topic themes of scripture
Hebrew paragraph divisions
23:1-20 {s} Abraham gains a possession in Canaan for a burial place
Strong themes of the parashah
None for this parashah
Gen 23:1-20 Reverse Parallelism
Download the fully expanded Gen 23:1-20 Triennial Chayei Sarah chiasm pdf (Coming …).
Theme of the parashah
Abraham gains a possession in Canaan for a burial place
Finding Messiah in Triennial Chayei Sarah
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke unto the sons of Heth, saying, “I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.” Gen 23:3-4
Consider that Abraham and Sarah were “strangers and sojourners” in the land of their sojourning, and they had no place of their own to lay their head, until their head was laid to rest in burial. Yeshua said of Himself,
And Yeshua said unto him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” Mat 8:20
That is, until His head was laid to rest in burial.
Additional readings for this parashah
Psa 18 (my notes) | 1 Kin 1 (my notes) | Act 7 (my notes)
Studies in Triennial Chayei Sarah
Gen 23, Bible for Beginners
Gen 23, Learning from the narrative teaching tool
Gen 23:3-4, A stranger and a sojourner
Gen 23:1-20, Chiastic structure
Further study off-site
The Hittites and the Old Testament (pdf, Tyndale Old Testament Lecture, 1947)
The Cave of the Patriarchs (Wikipedia)
SCRIPTURE REVEALED SERIES by CHRISTINE MILLER:
THE LAW of LOVE | FINDING MESSIAH in TORAH | GENESIS in CHIASTIC STRUCTURE
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