Genesis 16:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

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  • Gen 25:18 : 18 And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers.
  • Exod 15:22 : 22 Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water.
  • 1 Sam 15:7 : 7 And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt.
  • Prov 15:3 : 3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
  • Gen 31:11 : 11 And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.
  • Gen 20:1 : 1 And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.
  • Gen 21:17 : 17 And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.
  • Gen 22:11 : 11 But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
  • Gen 22:15 : 15 And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 16:8-11
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    84%

    8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

    9 And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

    10 And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

    11 And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

  • Gen 21:14-17
    4 verses
    76%

    14 And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

    15 And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.

    16 And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.

    17 And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.

  • Gen 16:13-15
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    76%

    13 And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

    14 So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

    15 And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

  • Gen 21:19
    75%

    19 Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.

  • Gen 16:1-6
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    74%

    1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

    2 And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

    3 So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

    4 And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

    5 And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.

    6 And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

  • Gen 24:42-46
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    72%

    42 And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey,

    43 Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says,

    44 Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked out by the Lord for my master's son.

    45 And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink.

    46 And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.

  • Gen 24:16-20
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    72%

    16 She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel.

    17 And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel.

    18 And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink.

    19 And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough.

    20 And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.

  • Gen 24:7
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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.

  • Gen 24:13-14
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    70%

    13 See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:

    14 Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

  • Gen 37:15
    69%

    15 And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

  • Gen 20:1
    68%

    1 And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.