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Genesis 20:1

And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

KJV

Profectus inde Abraham in terram australem, habitavit inter Cades et Sur : et peregrinatus est in Geraris.

Vulgate

Καὶ ἐκίνησεν ἐκεῖθεν Ἀβραὰμ εἰς γῆν πρὸς λίβα, καὶ ᾤκησεν ἀνὰ μέσον Καδὴς καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον Σούρ· καὶ παρῴκησεν ἐν Γεράροις.

LXX

And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.

ASV

וַ/יִּסַּ֨ע מִ/שָּׁ֤ם אַבְרָהָם֙ אַ֣רְצָ/ה הַ/נֶּ֔גֶב וַ/יֵּ֥שֶׁב בֵּין קָדֵ֖שׁ וּ/בֵ֣ין שׁ֑וּר וַ/יָּ֖גָר בִּ/גְרָֽר

Hebrew

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In this verse

People Abraham
Places Negev

In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אַבְרָהָ֖ם
'brhm
proper_noun · 174×
בֵּ֥ין
byn
noun · 405×
גְּרָ֔ר
grr
proper_noun · 10×
גָּ֣ר
gr
verb · 98×
ה
h
noun · 111×
ה
h
adverb · 827×
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י
yshby
verb · 1088×
יִּסְע֖וּ
ys'v
verb · 145×
קָדֵ֖שׁ
qdsh
proper_noun · 18×
שׁ֑וּר
shvr
proper_noun · 6×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Josephus retells the Genesis narrative: creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the genealogy from Adam to Noah, the flood, the tower of Babel, and the lives of Abraham and Isaac. He follows the biblical account closely but adds rationalizing explanations and draws on extra-biblical traditions.

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 14:13 — And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his h
  • 2Chr 14:13 — And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his h
  • Gen 14:7 — And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
  • Gen 16:7 — And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
  • Gen 18:1 — And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
  • Gen 24:62 — And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.
  • Gen 25:18 — And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.
  • Gen 26:1 — And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
  • Gen 26:1 — And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
  • 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
  • Gen 26:6 — And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
  • Gen 26:6 — And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
  • Ps 29:8 — The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
  • Ps 105:14 — He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;