Genesis 13:15
13 But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
14 After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
17 Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
- KJV
- For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
- WEB
- for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
- ASV
- for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
- DARBY
- for all the land that thou seest will I give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.
- BLB
- For all the land that you are seeing, I give to you and to your seed unto eternity.
- ÅB
- For hele det land du ser, vil jeg gi deg og dine etterkommere til evig tid.
- OTB
- for hele landet som du ser vil jeg gi til deg og dine etterkommere for alltid.
- B1930
- For hele det land du ser, vil jeg gi dig og din ætt til evig tid.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Chronicles 20:7
Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?
Read in contextGenesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Read in contextGenesis 15:18
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
Read in contextGenesis 35:12
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
Read in contextActs 7:5
He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.
Read in contextPsalms 37:22
Surely those He blesses will inherit the land, but the cursed will be destroyed.
Read in contextPsalms 105:9–12
the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
Read in contextPsalms 37:29
The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.
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