Genesis 20:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and Abimelech saith, `Lo, my land `is' before thee, where it is good in thine eyes, dwell;'

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  • Gen 13:9 : 9 Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.'
  • Gen 34:10 : 10 and with us ye dwell, and the land is before you; dwell ye and trade `in' it, and have possessions in it.'
  • Gen 47:6 : 6 the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land cause thy father and thy brethren to dwell -- they dwell in the land of Goshen, and if thou hast known, and there are among them men of ability, then thou hast set them heads over the cattle I have.'

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    13and it cometh to pass, when God hath caused me to wander from my father's house, that I say to her, This `is' thy kindness which thou dost with me: at every place whither we come, say of me, He `is' my brother.'

    14And Abimelech taketh sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and giveth to Abraham, and sendeth back to him Sarah his wife;

  • Gen 20:7-11
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    7and now send back the man's wife, for he `is' inspired, and he doth pray for thee, and live thou; and if thou do not send back, know that dying thou dost die, thou, and all that thou hast.'

    8And Abimelech riseth early in the morning, and calleth for all his servants, and speaketh all these words in their ears; and the men fear exceedingly;

    9and Abimelech calleth for Abraham, and saith to him, `What hast thou done to us? and what have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought upon me, and upon my kingdom, a great sin? works which are not done thou hast done with me.'

    10Abimelech also saith unto Abraham, `What hast thou seen that thou hast done this thing?'

    11And Abraham saith, `Because I said, `Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;

  • Gen 21:22-23
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    22And it cometh to pass at that time that Abimelech speaketh -- Phichol also, head of his host -- unto Abraham, saying, `God `is' with thee in all that thou art doing;

    23and now, swear to me by God here: thou dost not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with thee thou dost with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.'

  • Gen 20:1-5
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    1And Abraham journeyeth from thence toward the land of the south, and dwelleth between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourneth in Gerar;

    2and Abraham saith concerning Sarah his wife, `She is my sister;' and Abimelech king of Gerar sendeth and taketh Sarah.

    3And God cometh in unto Abimelech in a dream of the night, and saith to him, `Lo, thou `art' a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken -- and she married to a husband.'

    4And Abimelech hath not drawn near unto her, and he saith, `Lord, also a righteous nation dost thou slay?

    5hath not he himself said to me, She `is' my sister! and she, even she herself, said, He `is' my brother; in the integrity of my heart, and in the innocency of my hands, I have done this.'

  • Gen 21:29-30
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    29And Abimelech saith unto Abraham, `What `are' they -- these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'

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    10And Abimelech saith, `What `is' this thou hast done to us? as a little thing one of the people had lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us guilt;'

    11and Abimelech commandeth all the people, saying, `He who cometh against this man or against his wife, dying doth die.'

  • Gen 21:25-27
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    25And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,

    26and Abimelech saith, `I have not known who hath done this thing, and even thou didst not declare to me, and I also, I have not heard save to-day.'

    27And Abraham taketh sheep and oxen, and giveth to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;

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    10and with us ye dwell, and the land is before you; dwell ye and trade `in' it, and have possessions in it.'

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    16and to Sarah he hath said, `Lo, I have given a thousand silverlings to thy brother; lo, it is to thee a covering of eyes, to all who are with thee;' and by all this she is reasoned with.

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    18for Jehovah restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

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    9Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.'

  • Gen 23:12-14
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    12And Abraham boweth himself before the people of the land,

    13and speaketh unto Ephron in the ears of the people of the land, saying, `Only -- if thou wouldst hear me -- I have given the money of the field -- accept from me, and I bury my dead there.'

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    5And the sons of Heth answer Abraham, saying to him,

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    34and Abraham sojourneth in the land of the Philistines many days.

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    9and he giveth to me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which `is' in the extremity of his field; for full money doth he give it to me, in your midst, for a possession of a burying-place.'

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  • Gen 13:17
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    17rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'