Joshua 24:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

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  • Deut 2:5 : 5 Make no attack on them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even space enough for a man's foot: because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for his heritage.
  • Gen 36:8 : 8 So Esau made his living-place in the hill-country of Seir (Esau is Edom).
  • Gen 25:24-26 : 24 And when the time came for her to give birth, there were two children in her body. 25 And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau. 26 And after him, his brother came out, gripping Esau's foot; and he was named Jacob: Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.
  • Acts 7:15 : 15 And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;
  • Ps 105:23 : 23 Then Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob was living in the land of Ham.
  • Gen 32:3 : 3 Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom;
  • Gen 46:1-7 : 1 And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. 3 And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there: 4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes. 5 Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob took their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for them. 6 And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed: 7 His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.

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  • Josh 24:3
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    3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.

  • Gen 35:12
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    12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
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    34 And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

  • Gen 28:4-6
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    4 And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.

    5 So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

    6 So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;

  • Deut 2:4-5
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    4 And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your brothers, the children of Esau, who are living in Seir; and they will have fear of you; so take care what you do:

    5 Make no attack on them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even space enough for a man's foot: because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for his heritage.

  • Gen 48:4-5
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    4 And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.

    5 And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.

  • Josh 24:5
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    5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out.

  • Gen 36:8-9
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    8 So Esau made his living-place in the hill-country of Seir (Esau is Edom).

    9 And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the hill-country of Seir:

  • Gen 25:5
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    5 Now Abraham gave all his property to Isaac;

  • Deut 2:12
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    12 And the Horites in earlier times were living in Seir, but the children of Esau took their place; they sent destruction on them and took their land for themselves, as Israel did to the land of his heritage which the Lord gave them.)

  • Num 24:18
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    18 Edom will be his heritage, and he will put an end to the last of the people of Seir.

  • Gen 46:4
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    4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.

  • Gen 48:22
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    22 And I have given you more than your brothers, even Shechem as your heritage, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.

  • Gen 28:13
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    13 And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

  • Gen 26:2-3
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    2 And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge:

    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;

  • Gen 46:6
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    6 And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed:

  • Gen 32:3
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    3 Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom;

  • Gen 27:37
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    37 And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you, my son?

  • Heb 11:20
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    20 By faith Isaac, blessing Jacob and Esau, gave news of things to come.

  • Deut 2:29
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    29 As the children of Esau did for me in Seir and the Moabites in Ar; till I have gone over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Gen 36:6
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    6 Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob.

  • Exod 6:4
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    4 And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings.

  • Gen 31:9
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    9 So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

  • Gen 25:33
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    33 And Jacob said, First of all give me your oath; and he gave him his oath, handing over his birthright to Jacob.

  • Deut 1:8
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    8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.