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Genesis 26:5
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because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
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Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
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because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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Genesis 26
3 Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
5 because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.
7 But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”
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