Genesis 20:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you: live where it pleases you.

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  • Gen 13:9 : 9 Is not the whole land before you? separate yourself, I pray you, from me: if you will take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
  • Gen 34:10 : 10 And you shall dwell with us, and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade therein, and acquire possessions there.
  • Gen 47:6 : 6 The land of Egypt is before you; in the best of the land make your father and brothers to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if you know any capable men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

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  • Gen 20:13-14
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    13And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is your kindness which you shall show unto me; at every place where we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

    14And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and male servants, and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.

  • Gen 20:7-11
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    7Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live: and if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all that belong to you.

    8Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were very afraid.

    9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done to us? and what wrong have I done to you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that should not be done.

    10And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did you see, that you have done this thing?

    11And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me for my wife's sake.

  • Gen 21:22-23
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    22And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.

    23Now therefore swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have sojourned.

  • Gen 20:1-5
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    1And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.

    2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

    3But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.

    4But Abimelech had not come near her, and he said, Lord, will you slay also a righteous nation?

    5Did he not say to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself, said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands have I done this.

  • Gen 21:29-30
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    29And Abimelech said to Abraham, What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?

    30And he said, For these seven ewe lambs you shall take from my hand, that they may be a witness that I have dug this well.

  • Gen 26:10-11
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    10And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? one of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.

    11And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

  • Gen 21:25-27
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    25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

    26And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing; neither did you tell me, nor did I hear of it until today.

    27And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and both of them made a covenant.

  • Gen 34:10
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    10And you shall dwell with us, and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade therein, and acquire possessions there.

  • Gen 20:16-18
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    16And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is for you a covering of the eyes, to all that are with you, and with all others: thus she was reproved.

    17So Abraham prayed to God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants; and they bore children.

    18For the LORD had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 13:9
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    9Is not the whole land before you? separate yourself, I pray you, from me: if you will take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

  • Gen 23:12-14
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    12And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

    13And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, But if you will give it, I pray you, hear me; I will give you money for the field; take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.

    14And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

  • Gen 23:5
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    5And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

  • Gen 21:34
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    34And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

  • Gen 26:16
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    16And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us; for you are much mightier than we.

  • Gen 23:9
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    9That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns, which is at the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it to me for a possession of a burial place among you.

  • Gen 28:4
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    4And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you; that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.

  • Gen 13:17
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    17Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.