Genesis 13:9

American Standard Version (1901)

Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if [thou take] the right hand, then I will go to the left.

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  • Gen 20:15 : 15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
  • Gen 34:10 : 10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
  • Ps 120:7 : 7 I am [for] peace: But when I speak, they are for war.
  • Rom 12:18 : 18 If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.
  • 1 Cor 6:7 : 7 Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded?
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
  • Jas 3:13-18 : 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.
  • 1 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 Finally, [be] ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded: 9 not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 10 For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile: 11 And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.

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    14And Jehovah said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward:

    15for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

  • Gen 13:10-12
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    10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.

    11So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

    12Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

  • Gen 13:5-8
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    5And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

    6And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

    7And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.

    8And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for we are brethren.

  • Gen 24:49
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    49And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

  • Gen 13:17
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    17Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it.

  • Gen 12:1
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    1Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee:

  • Deut 2:27
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    27Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither unto the right hand nor to the left.

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    15And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

  • Ezek 21:16
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    16Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in array, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

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    3and said, My lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

  • Num 10:30-31
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    30And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.

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  • Gen 19:17-18
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    17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

    18And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord:

  • Gen 14:23-24
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    23that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

    24save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men that went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

  • Gen 24:7-8
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    7Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spake unto me, and who sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.

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    21And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

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    3and said unto him, Get thee out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

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    8And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

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    9And Jehovah said unto me, Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.

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    4So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

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    3sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

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    25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

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    41then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

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    5And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?