Genesis 22:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.

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  • Exod 5:3 : 3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.
  • 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.
  • Exod 19:11 : 11 And by the third day let them be ready: for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people.
  • Exod 19:15 : 15 And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.
  • Lev 7:17 : 17 But if any of the flesh of the offering is still unused on the third day, it is to be burned with fire.
  • Num 10:33 : 33 So they went forward three days' journey from the mountain of the Lord; and the ark of the Lord's agreement went three days' journey before them, looking for a resting-place for them;
  • Num 19:12 : 12 On the third day and on the seventh day he is to make himself clean with the water, and so he will be clean: but if he does not do this on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.
  • Num 19:19 : 19 Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening.
  • Num 31:19 : 19 You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.
  • Josh 1:11 : 11 Go through the tents and give orders to the people, saying, Get ready a store of food; for in three days you are to go over this river Jordan and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • 1 Sam 26:13 : 13 Then David went over to the other side, and took his place on the top of a mountain some distance away, with a great space between them;
  • 2 Kgs 20:5 : 5 Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.
  • Esth 5:1 : 1 Now on the third day, Esther put on her queen's robes, and took her place in the inner room of the king's house, facing the king's house: and the king was seated on his high seat in the king's house, facing the doorway of the house.
  • Hos 6:2 : 2 After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.
  • Matt 17:23 : 23 And they will put him to death, and the third day he will come again from the dead. And they were very sad.
  • Luke 13:32 : 32 And he said, Go and say to that fox, I send out evil spirits and do works of mercy today and tomorrow, and on the third day my work will be complete.
  • 1 Cor 15:4 : 4 And he was put in the place of the dead; and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings;

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  • Gen 22:1-3
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    1 Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

    2 And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.

    3 And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.

  • Gen 22:5-15
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    5 Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.

    6 And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.

    7 Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?

    8 And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.

    9 And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.

    10 And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.

    11 But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

    12 And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.

    13 And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.

    14 And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.

    15 And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,

  • Gen 19:27-28
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    27 And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

    28 And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.

  • Gen 18:2
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    2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;

  • Gen 13:14
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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:

  • Gen 24:63-64
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    63 And when the evening was near, he went wandering out into the fields, and lifting up his eyes he saw camels coming.

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  • Gen 18:16
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    16 And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.

  • Gen 13:3-4
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    3 And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

    4 To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.