Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 23:6
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Genesis23:6
6 Hear us my LORD , thou art a mighty prince amongst us, in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead: none of us shall with-hold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
Here is a conjunction of the plural and singular number, because though but one person spake, yet he spake in the name of the whole community.
Heb. A Prince of God. Great and excellent persons or things are oft expressed by adding the name of God. See Gen. 13. 10. Or, by Prince of God, they understand a Prince favoured and beloved of God.
For each Family had a distinct Sepulchre.
Marginal references: Heb. a prince of God.
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