Genesis 18:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He said,“My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

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  • Gen 32:5 : 5 I have oxen, donkeys, sheep, and male and female servants. I have sent this message to inform my lord, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”

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  • Gen 18:1-2
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    1Three Special Visitors The LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

    2Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

  • Judg 6:17-18
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    17Gideon said to him,“If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

    18Do not leave this place until I come back with a gift and present it to you.” The LORD said,“I will stay here until you come back.”

  • Gen 18:4-5
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    4Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree.

    5And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant’s home. After that you may be on your way.”“All right,” they replied,“you may do as you say.”

  • Gen 24:12
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    12He prayed,“O LORD, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.

  • Gen 19:18-19
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    18But Lot said to them,“No, please, Lord!

    19Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.

  • Gen 24:42-43
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    42When I came to the spring today, I prayed,‘O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, may events unfold as follows:

    43Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say,“Please give me a little water to drink from your jug.”

  • Gen 24:27
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    27saying“Praised be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love for my master! The LORD has led me to the house of my master’s relatives!”

  • Gen 24:48-49
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    48Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

    49Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way.”

  • Gen 33:14-15
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    14Let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the herds and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

    15So Esau said,“Let me leave some of my men with you.”“Why do that?” Jacob replied.“My lord has already been kind enough to me.”

  • Exod 33:13-16
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    13Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your way, that I may know you, that I may continue to find favor in your sight. And see that this nation is your people.”

    14And the LORD said,“My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

    15And Moses said to him,“If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.

    16For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?”

  • Gen 33:10
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    10“No, please take them,” Jacob said.“If I have found favor in your sight, accept my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, it is as if I have seen the face of God.

  • Gen 24:33-34
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    33When food was served, he said,“I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.”“Tell us,” Laban said.

    34“I am the servant of Abraham,” he began.

  • Num 10:31
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    31Moses said,“Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.

  • Gen 19:2
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    2He said,“Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.”“No,” they replied,“we’ll spend the night in the town square.”

  • Gen 44:33
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    33“So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.

  • Gen 30:27
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    27But Laban said to him,“If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me on account of you.”

  • Gen 13:9
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    9Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”

  • 1 Sam 20:29
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    29He said,‘Permit me to go, for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go to see my brothers.’ For that reason he has not come to the king’s table.”

  • Gen 24:56
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    56But he said to them,“Don’t detain me– the LORD has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return to my master.”

  • Gen 24:17
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    17Abraham’s servant ran to meet her and said,“Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”

  • Gen 33:8
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    8Esau then asked,“What did you intend by sending all these herds to meet me?” Jacob replied,“To find favor in your sight, my lord.”

  • Gen 18:30
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    30Then Abraham said,“May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?” He replied,“I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

  • Gen 18:22
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    22The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the LORD.

  • Ruth 2:13
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    13She said,“You really are being kind to me, sir, for you have reassured and encouraged me, your servant, even though I will never be like one of your servants!”

  • Exod 33:18
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    18And Moses said,“Show me your glory.”

  • Gen 30:29
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    29“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied,“and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

  • Gen 18:27
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    27Then Abraham asked,“Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord(although I am but dust and ashes),

  • Gen 24:39-40
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    39But I said to my master,‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’

    40He answered,‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father’s family.

  • Gen 17:3
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    3Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

  • Gen 18:33
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    33The LORD went on his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham. Then Abraham returned home.

  • Gen 44:18
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    18Then Judah approached him and said,“My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.

  • Judg 19:18
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    18The Levite said to him,“We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. But no one has invited me into their home.

  • Gen 18:17
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    17Then the LORD said,“Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

  • Exod 34:9
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    9and said,“If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”