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Genesis 26:5

Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.

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Genesis 26:5 in other translations

KJV King James Version

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

WEB World English Bible

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

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In context

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;

4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

5 Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.

6 So Isaac went on living in Gerar;

7 And when he was questioned by the men of the place about his wife, he said, She is my sister; fearing to say, She is my wife; for, he said, the men of the place may put me to death on account of Rebekah; because she is very beautiful.

8 And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.

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