Genesis 21 - 23
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The Lord k visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah l as he had promised.
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And Sarah m conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age n at the time of which God had spoken to him.
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Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, o Isaac.
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And Abraham p circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, q as God had commanded him.
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r Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
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And Sarah said, s "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me."
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And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? t Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."
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And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
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But Sarah u saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, v laughing.
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So she said to Abraham, w "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."
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And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.
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But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for x through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
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And I will make y a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
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So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of z Beersheba.
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When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.
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Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, "Let me not look on the death of the child." And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
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And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
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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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Then a God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
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And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness b and became an expert with the bow.
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He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
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At that time c Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, d "God is with you in all that you do.
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Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but e as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned."
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And Abraham said, "I will swear."
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When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants f had seized,
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Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today."
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So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men g made a covenant.
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Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.
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And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?"
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He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well."
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Therefore h that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
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Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and i called there on the name of the Lord, j the Everlasting God.
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And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 22
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After these things k God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
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He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to l the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
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So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
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On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
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Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you."
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And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and m laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.
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And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
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Abraham said, n "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
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When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and o laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
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Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
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But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."
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He said, p "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for q now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
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And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
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So Abraham called the name of that place, r "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided."
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And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven
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and said, s "By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
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I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring t as the stars of heaven and u as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess v the gate of his enemies,
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and w in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, x because you have obeyed my voice."
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So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to y Beersheba. And Abraham lived at y Beersheba.
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Now after these things it was told to Abraham, "Behold, z Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
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a Uz his firstborn, b Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
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Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
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( c Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 23
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Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
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And Sarah died at d Kiriath-arba (that is, e Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
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And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites,
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f "I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; g give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
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The Hittites answered Abraham,
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"Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."
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Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.
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And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,
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that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place."
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Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who h went in at the gate of his city,
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"No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
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Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
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And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there."
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Ephron answered Abraham,
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"My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred i shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."
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Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham j weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
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So k the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over
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to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
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After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
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The field and the cave that is in it l were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.
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1 Samuel 2:21
Indeed the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the young man Samuel grew in the presence of the Lord.
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Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
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 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.
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Hebrews 11:11
By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
Galatians 4:22
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.
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Genesis 17:21
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.
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Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
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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.
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Genesis 17:10
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
Genesis 17:12
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.
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Genesis 17:1
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 blameless.
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?
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.
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Isaiah 54:1
Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the Lord.
Galatians 4:27
For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.
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Genesis 18:11 - 12
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.
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Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 16:15
And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
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Galatians 4:29
But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
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Galatians 4:30
But what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.
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Romans 9:7
And not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
Hebrews 11:18
Of whom it was said, "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
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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 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.
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.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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Numbers 22:31
Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand. And he bowed down and fell on his face.
2 Kings 6:17 - 18
Then Elisha prayed and said, "O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see." So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
2 Kings 6:20
As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, "O Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the Lord opened their eyes and they saw, and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
Luke 24:16
But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
Luke 24:31
And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight.
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Genesis 16:12
He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.
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Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Genesis 26:1
Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
Genesis 26:26
When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.
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Genesis 26:28
They said, "We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you.
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Genesis 20:14
Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him.
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Genesis 26:15
(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)
Genesis 26:18
And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.
Genesis 26:20 - 22
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 26:31
In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.
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Genesis 26:33
He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
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Genesis 4:26
To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 12:8
From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
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Isaiah 40:28
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
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1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Hebrews 11:17
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son.
James 1:12 - 13
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
1 Peter 1:6 - 7
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials.
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2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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John 19:17
And he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
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John 1:29
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:36
And he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!
1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Revelation 5:12
Saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!
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Hebrews 11:17
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son.
James 2:21
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
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Micah 6:7 - 8
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
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Genesis 26:5
Because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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Genesis 22:8
Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
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Psalms 105:9
The covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac.
Luke 1:73
The oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
Hebrews 6:13
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself.
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Jeremiah 33:22
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be.
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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.
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Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him!
Psalms 127:5
Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.
Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed.
Acts 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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Genesis 22:3
So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 26:5
Because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.
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Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
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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.
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Jeremiah 25:23
Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair.
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Genesis 24:15
Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.
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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.
Joshua 14:15
Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
Judges 1:10
And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
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Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
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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.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Psalms 105:12
When they were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
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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 34:20
So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying.
Genesis 34:24
And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, "Turn aside, friend; sit down here." And he turned aside and sat down.
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Exodus 30:13
Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.
Ezekiel 45:12
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
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1 Chronicles 21:25
So David paid Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.
Jeremiah 32:9
And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.
Zechariah 11:12
Then I said to them, "If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.
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Genesis 25:9
Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre.
Genesis 49:29 - 32
Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
Genesis 50:13
For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.
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Ruth 4:7 - 10
Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.
Jeremiah 32:10 - 14
I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales.
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