Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
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There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about. Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
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Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
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Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father;
and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and by thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves;
because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.'
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- Genesis 28:15 (v3) Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have…
- Matthew 7:24 (v5) “Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
- Psalms 105:9 (v3) the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
- Genesis 22:18 (v5) All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”
- Genesis 13:15 (v3) for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
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- Genesis 22:16 (v5) and said, “ ‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
- Genesis 22:16-18 (v3) and said, “ ‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, that I…
- Genesis 12:7 (v3) Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
- Genesis 17:8 (v3) I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting…
- Genesis 20:1 (v3) Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
- Psalms 112:1-2 (v5) Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments. His offspring will be mighty in the land. The…
- Acts 3:25 (v4) You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the…
- Hebrews 11:9 (v3) By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him…
- James 2:21 (v5) Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
- Genesis 15:18 (vv3–4) In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great…
- Genesis 12:2-3 (v4) I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and…
- Genesis 13:17 (v3) Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”
- Genesis 15:5 (v4) Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So…
- Hebrews 11:8 (v5) By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing…
- Genesis 13:16 (v4) I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be…
- Genesis 22:17-18 (v4) that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the…
- Genesis 26:12 (v3) Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- Genesis 26:14 (v3) He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
- Genesis 39:2 (v3) Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
- Psalms 32:8 (v3) I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
- Psalms 39:12 (v3) “Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers…
- Psalms 128:1-6 (v5) Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways. For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be…
- Galatians 3:8 (v4) The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all…
- Galatians 5:6 (v5) For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
- Philippians 4:9 (v3) The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
- Hebrews 11:13-16 (v3) These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they…
- Genesis 12:4 (v5) So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
- Genesis 18:19 (v5) For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do…
- Genesis 39:21 (v3) But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
- Exodus 32:13 (v4) Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring…
- Isaiah 43:2 (v3) When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire,…
- Isaiah 43:5 (v3) Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.
- Micah 7:20 (v3) You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58 (v5) Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in…
- Hebrews 6:17 (v3) In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an…
- Genesis 12:1-2 (v3) Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. I will…
- Genesis 17:23 (v5) Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham’s…
- Psalms 37:1-6 (v3) Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,…
- Psalms 72:17 (v4) His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
- Matthew 5:19 (v5) Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven;…
- Galatians 3:16 (v4) Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your…
- Genesis 17:4-8 (v4) “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations. Your name will no more be called Abram, but…
- Genesis 18:18 (v4) since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
- Hebrews 11:2 (v4) For by this, the elders obtained testimony.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On v5 5. Because that Abraham obeyed my voice. Moses does…
5. Because that Abraham obeyed my voice. Moses does not mean that Abraham’s obedience was the reason why the promise of God was confirmed and ratified to him; but from what has been said before, (Genesis 22:18,) where we have a similar expression, we learn, that what God freely bestows upon the faithful is sometimes, beyond their desert, ascribed to themselves; that they, knowing their intention to be approved by the Lord, may the more ardently addict and devote themselves entirely to his service: so he now commends the obedience of Abraham, in order that Isaac may be stimulated to an imitation of his example. And although laws, statutes, rites, precepts, and ceremonies, had not yet been written, Moses used these terms, that he might the more clearly show how sedulously Abraham regulated his life according to the will of God alone — how carefully he abstained from all the impurities of the heathen — and how exactly he pursued the straight course of holiness, without turning aside to the right hand or to the left: for the Lord often honors his own law with these titles for the sake of restraining our excesses; as if he should say that it wanted nothing to constitute it a perfect rule, but embraced everything pertaining to absolute holiness. The meaning therefore is, that Abraham, having formed his life in entire accordance with the will of God, walked in his pure service.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v5 Hebrew, my keeping.
Hebrew, my keeping.
He commendeth Abraham’s obedience, because Isaac should be the more ready to follow the like: for as God made this promise of his free mercy, so doth the confirmation thereof proceed of the same fountain.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv3–5 Gen 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will…
Gen 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Ver. 3. Sojourn in this land.] Though it lay under the common lash; that he might see God’s power in providing for him amidst greatest straits and difficulties. Poena duplicem habet ordinationem: unam ad culpam quae praecedit, alteram, ad gloriam Dei quam praecedit. {a}
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{a} Alex. Alesius [Hayles], p. 3, q. 5, m. 1.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv3, 5 Unto thee, and unto thy seed; to thee to…
Unto thee, and unto thy seed; to thee to enjoy for thy present comfort, and to them to possess as an inheritance. See Poole on "Gen 13:15", see Poole on "Gen 15:18".
I will perform the oath, i.e. the promises confirmed by oath, Gen 22:16, &c.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv3–5 Sojourn in this land,.... The land of Canaan, where…
Sojourn in this land,.... The land of Canaan, where he now was; either in Gerar, which though in the land of the Philistines was a part of Canaan, the place of his present residence; or in any other part of it he should be directed to: however, by this it appears it was the pleasure of God that he should not go out of that land, and which Abraham his father was careful of, that he should not while he lived; see Gen 24:6,
and I will be with thee, and I will bless thee; with his presence; with protection from all enemies; with a supply of all the necessaries of life; and with all spiritual blessings, and with eternal life and happiness:
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for unto thee, and to thy seed, will I give these countries; inhabited at that time by the Philistines, Canaanites, and the several tribes of them:
and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; concerning the promise of the Messiah from him and his seed, the gift of the land of Canaan to them, and the multiplication of them, Gen 22:16.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v5 Abraham obeyed my voice - Do thou do so…
Abraham obeyed my voice - Do thou do so too, and the promise shall be sure to thee. A great variety of words is here used to express the Divine Will to which Abraham was obedient, my voice, my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws - Which may intimate, that Abraham's obedience was universal; he obeyed the original laws of nature, the revealed laws of divine worship, particularly that of circumcision, and all the extraordinary precepts God gave him, as that of quitting his country, and that (which some think is more especially referred to) the offering up of his son, which Isaac himself had reason enough to remember. Those only shall have the benefit of God's covenant with their parents, that tread the steps of their obedience.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv3–5 Verse 3. Sojourn in this land] In Gerar, whither…
Verse 3. Sojourn in this land] In Gerar, whither he had gone, Ge 26:1, and where we find he settled, Ge 26:6, though the land of Canaan in general might be here intended. That there were serious and important reasons why Isaac should not go to Egypt, we may be fully assured, though they be not assigned here; it is probable that even Isaac himself was not informed why he should not go down to Egypt. I have already supposed that God saw trials in his way which he might not have been able to bear. While a man acknowledges God in all his ways, he will direct all his steps, though he may not choose to give him the reasons of the workings of his providence. Abraham might go safely to Egypt, Isaac might not; in firmness and decision of character there was a wide difference between the two men.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv4–5 Gen 26:4. I will make thy seed to multiply…
Gen 26:4. I will make thy seed to multiply — Here we find a renewal to Isaac of all God’s promises made to Abraham; and the great fundamental mysterious promise is renewed exactly in the same words in which it had been given to Abraham. When God said to Abraham, In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed — Perhaps Abraham might, at first, suppose God spake of his immediate seed, namely, of Isaac; but when he came upon the stage of life, he brought no such blessing with him; and when the promise was renewed to him in the very same words, it became evident that the seed which was to be this universal blessing was still to come.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v5 Ceremonies of religion, observed under the law of nature.…
Ceremonies of religion, observed under the law of nature. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv4–5 4. All these countries — All the different districts…
4. All these countries — All the different districts or territories of the different Canaanitish tribes.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv3–5 3. sojourn … land] The temporary dwelling of one…
3. sojourn … land] The temporary dwelling of one who as a stranger had none of the rights of a native inhabitant; so LXX παροίκει; Lat. peregrinare. See note on Gen_23:4, and cf. Heb_11:9.
I will be with thee] See Gen_26:24, Gen_21:20, Gen_28:15. God’s Presence is the pledge of man’s blessing.
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unto thee, &c.] The promises made to Abraham are here renewed to Isaac; see note on Gen_13:14-17.
these lands] The plural is uncommon. Lat. universas regiones has.
the oath … sware] See Gen_22:16-18.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On v3 (3, 4) These countries.—On the archaic form of the…
(3, 4) These countries.—On the archaic form of the pronoun these, see Note on Gen_19:8. The countries are enumerated in Gen_15:19-21. For the “oath,” see Gen_22:16; and for the metaphor, “as the stars,” see Gen_15:5.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv3–5 Sojourn in this land, viz., Philistia (Murphy, Alford), though…
Sojourn in this land, viz., Philistia (Murphy, Alford), though otherwise regarded as Canaan (Lange, Keil, Calvin)and I will be with thee, and will bless thee. Of this comprehensive promise, the first part was enjoyed by, while the second was distinctly stated to, Abraham. (Gen_12:2) God s presence with Isaac of higher significance than his presence with Ishmael. (Gen_21:20) For unto thee, and unto thy seed, will I give all these lah an archaism for hLaeh (cf. Gen_19:8, Gen_19:25) countries (i.e. Canaan and the surrounding lands), and I will perform the oath (vide Gen_22:16) which I aware unto Abraham thy father.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v4 General Information:
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Yahweh continues speaking to Isaac.
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I will multiply your descendants
"I will cause you to have very many descendants."
like the stars of heaven
This speaks about the number of Isaac's descendants as if they were the same as the number of stars. See how you translated this in Genesis 22:17. (See: Simile)
heaven
This refers to everything we see above the earth, including the sun, moon, and stars.
all the nations of the earth will be blessed
This can be stated in active form. AT: "I will bless all the nations of the earth" (See: Active or Passive)
Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my instructions, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws
The phrases "obeyed my voice" and "kept my instructions, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws" mean basically the same thing. AT: "Abraham obeyed me and did everything I commanded him to do" (See: Parallelism)
obeyed my voice
Here "voice" stands for Yahweh. AT: "obeyed me" (See: Synecdoche)
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multiply
descend
heaven
nation
bless
Abraham
obey
instruct
command
statute
law, laws
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