Genesis 26:5
3 Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.
7 But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”
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
- because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
- KJV
- Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
- WEB
- because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
- ASV
- Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
- DARBY
- because that Abraham hearkened to my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
- BLB
- because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
- ÅB
- fordi Abraham lød mitt ord og holdt alt det jeg befalte ham å holde, mine bud, mine forskrifter og mine lover.
- OTB
- fordi Abraham adlød meg og holdt mine bud, mine forskrifter og mine lover.»
- B1930
- fordi Abraham lød mitt ord og holdt alt det jeg bød ham å holde, mine bud, mine forskrifter og mine lover.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 7:24
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Read in contextGenesis 22:18
And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Read in contextGenesis 22:16
saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
Read in contextJames 2:21
Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
Read in contextPsalms 112:1–2
Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
Read in contextHebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
Read in contextPsalms 128:1–6
Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
Read in contextGalatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
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