Genesis 13:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

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  • Gen 20:15 : 15 And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.
  • Gen 34:10 : 10 Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.
  • Ps 120:7 : 7 I am for peace: but when I say so, they are for war.
  • Rom 12:18 : 18 As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.
  • 1 Cor 6:7 : 7 More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;
  • Jas 3:13-18 : 13 Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. 15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. 16 For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing. 17 But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
  • 1 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride: 9 Not giving back evil for evil, or curse for curse, but in place of cursing, blessing; because this is the purpose of God for you that you may have a heritage of blessing. 10 For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit: 11 And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

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    14 And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

    15 For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

  • Gen 13:10-12
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    10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

    11 So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

    12 Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

  • Gen 13:5-8
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    5 And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;

    6 So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

    7 And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.

    8 Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.

  • Gen 24:49
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    49 And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have to do.

  • Gen 13:17
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    17 Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.

  • Gen 12:1
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    1 Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

  • Deut 2:27
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    27 Let me go through your land: I will keep to the highway, not turning to the right or to the left;

  • Gen 20:15
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    15 And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.

  • Ezek 21:16
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    16 Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.

  • Gen 18:3
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    3 And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:

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    30 But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to the land of my birth and to my relations.

    31 And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.

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    1 And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

  • Gen 19:17-18
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    17 And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.

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  • Gen 14:23-24
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    23 That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:

    24 Give me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who went with me have had; but let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have their part of the goods.

  • Gen 24:7-8
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    7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

    8 And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.

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    21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners and take the goods for yourself.

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    12 And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

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    3 And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide.

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    8 And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?

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    12 And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, and all his goods.

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    9 And the Lord said to me, Make no attack on Moab and do not go to war with them, for I will not give you any of his land: because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for their heritage.

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    4 So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.

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    3 Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

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    25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

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    41 And you will be free from your oath to me when you come to my people; and if they will not give her to you, you will be free from your oath.

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    5 And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?