Genesis 13 - 17
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So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, a into the Negeb.
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b Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
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And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
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to c the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the Lord.
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And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents,
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so that d the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,
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e and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. At that time f the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.
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Then Abram said to Lot, g "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, h for we are kinsmen.
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i Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left."
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And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the j Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like k the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of l Zoar. (This was before the Lord m destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other.
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Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
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Now the men of Sodom n were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.
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The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, o northward and southward and eastward and westward,
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for all the land that you see I will give p to you and q to your offspring forever.
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r I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."
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So Abram moved his tent and came and s settled by the t oaks of Mamre, which u are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 14
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In the days of Amraphel king of v Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of w Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
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these kings made war with x Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of y Admah, Shemeber king of y Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
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And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim ( z that is, the Salt Sea).
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Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
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In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the a Rephaim in b Ashteroth-karnaim, the c Zuzim in Ham, the d Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
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and the e Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as f El-paran on the border of the wilderness.
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Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, g Kadesh) and defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were dwelling h in Hazazon-tamar.
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Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim
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with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.
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Now the Valley of Siddim was full of i bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled j to the hill country.
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So the enemy took k all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way.
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They also took Lot, l the son of Abram's brother, m who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions, and went their way.
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Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, n who was living by the o oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
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When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, p born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as q Dan.
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And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
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Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot r with his possessions, and the women and the people.
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After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the s King's Valley).
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And t Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was u priest of v God Most High.)
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And he blessed him and said,
w "Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
x Possessor of heaven and earth;
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and blessed be God Most High,
who has delivered your enemies into your hand!"
And Abram gave him y a tenth of everything.
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And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself."
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But Abram said to the king of Sodom, z "I have lifted my hand to the Lord, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,
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that a I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
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I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me. Let b Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share."
Genesis 15
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After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: c "Fear not, Abram, I am d your shield; your reward shall be very great."
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But Abram said, "O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
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And Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no offspring, and e a member of my household will be my heir."
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And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: "This man shall not be your heir; f your very own son shall be your heir."
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And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and g number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, h "So shall your offspring be."
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And i he believed the Lord, and j he counted it to him as righteousness.
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And he said to him, "I am the Lord who k brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans l to give you this land to possess."
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But he said, "O Lord God, m how am I to know that I shall possess it?"
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He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
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And he brought him all these, n cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But o he did not cut the birds in half.
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And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
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As the sun was going down, a p deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.
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Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain q that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and r they will be afflicted for s four hundred years.
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But t I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward u they shall come out with great possessions.
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As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; v you shall be buried in a good old age.
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And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for w the iniquity of the Amorites x is not yet complete."
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When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
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On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, y "To your offspring I give this land, from z the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
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the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
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the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
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the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites."
Genesis 16
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a Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was b Hagar.
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And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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So, after Abram c had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
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And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, d she looked with contempt on her mistress.
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And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May e the Lord judge between you and me!"
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But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
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The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to f Shur.
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And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai."
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The angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her."
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The angel of the Lord also said to her, g "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude."
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And the angel of the Lord said to her,
"Behold, you are pregnant
and shall bear a son.
You shall call his name Ishmael,
h because the Lord has listened to your affliction.
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He shall be i a wild donkey of a man,
his hand against everyone
and everyone's hand against him,
and he shall dwell j over against all his kinsmen."
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So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "You are a God of seeing," for she said, k "Truly here I have seen him who looks after me."
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Therefore the well was called l Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between m Kadesh and Bered.
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And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
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Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
Genesis 17
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When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be n blameless,
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that I may make my covenant between me and you, and o may multiply you greatly."
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Then Abram p fell on his face. And God said to him,
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"Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be q the father of a multitude of nations.
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No longer shall your name be called Abram, but r your name shall be Abraham, s for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
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I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make t you into nations, and u kings shall come from you.
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And I will v establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, w to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
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And x I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and y I will be their God."
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And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
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This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
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You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a z sign of the covenant between me and you.
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He who is a eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or b bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring,
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both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.
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Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."
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And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
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I will bless her, and moreover, I will c give you a son by her. I will bless her, and d she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
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Then Abraham e fell on his face f and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
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And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"
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God said, "No, but g Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name h Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
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As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and i multiply him greatly. He j shall father twelve princes, and k I will make him into a great nation.
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But l I will establish my covenant with Isaac, m whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year."
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When he had finished talking with him, n God went up from Abraham.
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Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
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Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.
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And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
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Genesis 12:9
And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.
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Genesis 24:35
The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.
Psalms 112:1 - 3
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
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Genesis 12:7 - 8
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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Genesis 36:6 - 7
Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his livestock, all his beasts, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan. He went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
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Genesis 26:20
The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
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Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
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1 Corinthians 6:1 - 8
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
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Acts 7:26
And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, 'Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?
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Genesis 20:15
And Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you.
Genesis 34:10
You shall dwell with us, and the land shall be open to you. Dwell and trade in it, and get property in it.
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Genesis 19:17
And as they brought them out, one said, "Escape...
Genesis 19:25
And he overthrew those cities, and all the vall...
Genesis 19:28
And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah an...
Deuteronomy 34:3
The Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley o...
1 Kings 7:46
In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, ...
Matthew 3:5
Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region...
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Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Isaiah 51:3
For the Lord comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord ; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.
Ezekiel 28:13
You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.
Joel 2:3
Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.
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Genesis 14:2
These kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
Genesis 14:8
Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim
Genesis 19:22
Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
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Genesis 19:24 - 25
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
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Genesis 18:20
Then the Lord said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave.
Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
2 Peter 2:7 - 8
And if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
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Genesis 28:14
Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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Genesis 17:8
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Genesis 35:12
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.
Acts 7:5
Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To y...
Genesis 15:18
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram...
Genesis 24:7
The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from m...
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of ...
Deuteronomy 34:4
And the Lord said to him, "This is the land of ...
2 Chronicles 20:7
Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants...
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely mult...
Genesis 28:14
Your offspring shall be like the dust of the ea...
Genesis 32:12
But you said, 'I will surely do you good, and m...
Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the f...
1 Kings 3:8
And your servant is in the midst of your people...
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look towa...
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Genesis 14:13
Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
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Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
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Genesis 35:27
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
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Genesis 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 11:2
And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
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Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
Isaiah 11:11
In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
Acts 2:9
Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia.
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Genesis 14:8
Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Genesis 19:22
Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
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Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath -
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Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath -
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Numbers 34:12
And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around.
Deuteronomy 3:17
The Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
Joshua 3:16
The waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.
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Genesis 15:20
The Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim.
Deuteronomy 2:11
Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
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Deuteronomy 1:4
After he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.
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Deuteronomy 2:20
(It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there - but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim -
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Deuteronomy 2:10 - 11
( The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim.
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Deuteronomy 2:12
The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the Lord gave to them.)
Deuteronomy 2:22
As he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day.
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Genesis 21:21
He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Numbers 12:16
After that the people set out from Hazeroth, and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:3
So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.
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Genesis 16:14
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 20:1
From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
Numbers 13:26
And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
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2 Chronicles 20:2
Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, "A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar" (that is, Engedi).
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Genesis 11:3
And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
Exodus 2:3
When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.
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Genesis 19:17
And as they brought them out, one said, "Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.
Genesis 19:30
Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.
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Genesis 14:16
Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.
Genesis 14:21
And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself.
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Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 13:12
Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
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Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
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Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
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Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.
Genesis 17:12 - 13
He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
Genesis 17:23
Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
Genesis 17:27
And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.
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Judges 18:29
And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first.
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Genesis 14:11 - 12
So the enemy took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way.
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2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.
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Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him.
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Psalms 110:4
The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind...
Hebrews 5:6
As he says also in another place, "You are a pr...
Hebrews 5:10
Being designated by God a high priest after the...
Hebrews 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of ...
Hebrews 7:11
Now if perfection had been attainable through t...
Hebrews 7:17
For it is witnessed of him, "You are a priest f...
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Psalms 57:2
I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.
Acts 16:17
She followed Paul and us, crying out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.
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Hebrews 7:6 - 7
But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
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Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children.
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Hebrews 7:4
See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!
Genesis 28:22
And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.
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Exodus 6:8
I will bring you into the land that I swore to ...
Numbers 14:30
Not one shall come into the land where I swore ...
Deuteronomy 32:40
For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I...
Ezekiel 20:5 - 6
And say to them, Thus says the Lord God : On th...
Ezekiel 20:15
Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness tha...
Ezekiel 20:23
Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness tha...
Ezekiel 20:28
For when I had brought them into the land that ...
Daniel 12:7
And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was a...
Revelation 10:5 - 6
And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea an...
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Esther 9:15 - 16
The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.
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Genesis 14:13
Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.
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Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.
Daniel 10:12
Then he said to me, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.
Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
Luke 1:30
And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
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Psalms 3:3
But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
Psalms 18:2
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psalms 84:11
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
Psalms 119:114
You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.
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Genesis 14:14
When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
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Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.
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Psalms 147:4
He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely mult...
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of ...
Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your serva...
Deuteronomy 1:10
The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behol...
Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons...
1 Chronicles 27:23
David did not count those below twenty years of...
Hebrews 11:12
Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead...
Romans 4:18
In hope he believed against hope, that he shoul...
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Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Romans 4:22
That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness.
Galatians 3:6
Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?
James 2:23
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness" - and he was called a friend of God.
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Romans 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.
Psalms 106:31
And that was counted to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.
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Genesis 11:31
Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Nehemiah 9:7 - 8
You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
Acts 7:2 - 4
And Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.
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Psalms 105:42
For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham, his servant.
Psalms 105:44
And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil.
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Judges 6:17
And he said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.
2 Kings 20:8
And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?
Psalms 86:17
Show me a sign of your favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.
Isaiah 7:11 - 13
"Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven."
Luke 1:18
And Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.
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Jeremiah 34:18 - 19
And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant that they made before me, I will make them like the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts -
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Leviticus 1:17
He shall tear it open by its wings, but shall not sever it completely. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
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Acts 7:6 - 7
And God spoke to this effect - that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.
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Exodus 1:11 - 12
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.
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Acts 7:6
And God spoke to this effect - that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.
Exodus 12:40 - 41
The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.
Galatians 3:17
This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
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Exodus 6:6
Say therefore to the people of Israel, 'I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.
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Exodus 12:36
And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
Psalms 105:37
Then he brought out Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.
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Genesis 25:8
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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1 Kings 21:26
He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)
Amos 2:9
Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.
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Daniel 8:23
And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise.
Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
By hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved - so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To y...
Genesis 13:15
For all the land that you see I will give to yo...
Genesis 24:7
The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from m...
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of ...
Numbers 34:2
Command the people of Israel, and say to them, ...
Deuteronomy 34:4
And the Lord said to him, "This is the land of ...
Nehemiah 9:8
You found his heart faithful before you, and ma...
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Exodus 23:31
And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
Deuteronomy 1:7
Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Joshua 1:4
From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
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Genesis 15:2 - 3
But Abram said, "O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?
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Genesis 21:9
But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.
Galatians 4:24
Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.
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Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan.
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1 Samuel 1:6 - 7
And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.
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Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
1 Samuel 24:12
May the Lord judge between me and you, may the Lord avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.
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Genesis 25:18
They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen.
Exodus 15:22
Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
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Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 21:18
Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 25:12 - 18
These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham.
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Genesis 29:32
And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.
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Job 39:5 - 8
Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey.
Genesis 21:20
And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow.
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Genesis 25:18
They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen.
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Genesis 32:30
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.
Exodus 19:21
And the Lord said to Moses, "Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to look and many of them perish.
Exodus 33:20
But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.
Judges 13:22
And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God.
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Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb.
Genesis 25:11
After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.
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Genesis 14:7
Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh) and defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were dwelling in Hazazon-tamar.
Genesis 20:1
From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
Numbers 13:26
And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
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Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
Deuteronomy 18:13
You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
Psalms 119:1
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!
Matthew 5:48
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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Genesis 12:2
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
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Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?
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Romans 4:11 - 12
He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well.
Romans 4:16
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring - not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
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Nehemiah 9:7
You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
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Romans 4:17
As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" - in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
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Genesis 35:11
And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
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Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.
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Galatians 3:17
This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
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Hebrews 11:16
But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
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Genesis 12:7
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:15
For all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.
Psalms 105:11
Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance.
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Exodus 6:7
I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
Leviticus 26:12
And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
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Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
Romans 4:11
He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well.
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Leviticus 12:3
And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Luke 1:59
And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father.
Luke 2:21
And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Philippians 3:5
Circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee.
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Exodus 12:48 - 49
If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
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Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
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Genesis 35:11
And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
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Genesis 17:3
Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him.
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Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.
Romans 4:19
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead ( since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.
John 8:56
Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.
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Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.
Genesis 21:2
And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
Galatians 4:23
But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.
Galatians 4:28
Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
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Genesis 21:3
Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.
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Genesis 16:10
The angel of the Lord also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.
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Genesis 25:12 - 16
These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham.
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Genesis 21:13
And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring.
Genesis 21:18
Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.
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Genesis 26:2 - 5
And the Lord appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.
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Genesis 21:2
And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
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Genesis 35:13
Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.
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