Genesis 26:5 “because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandmen…”

Genesis 26:5

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Because that Abraham obeyed my voyce and kept mine ordinance, my commandements, my statutes, and my Lawes.

Darby Translation

because that Abraham hearkened to my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Young's Literal Translation

because that Abraham hath hearkened to My voice, and keepeth My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.'

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

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

Matthew 7:24 Genesis 22:18 Genesis 22:16 James 2:21 Hebrews 11:8 Psalm 128:1–6

Matthew 7:24 · BSB

Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Genesis 22:18 · BSB

And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Genesis 22:16 · BSB

saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,

James 2:21 · BSB

Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?

Hebrews 11:8 · BSB

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

Psalm 128:1–6 · BSB

Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4I 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,

6So Isaac settled in Gerar.

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