Genesis 13:14

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Look at all the country around you. Look to the north, to the south, to the east and to the west.

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In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

In Context

13The people that lived in Sodom were very bad. They were always going against God and doing bad things all the time.

15I am going to give you all the country that you can see. All that country will be for you, your children, your grandchildren and all the families that will come from you. It will be their country forever.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:14No-one can count the little bits of dirt on the ground and just like that, no-one will be able to count the families that will come from you. Your family will spread out all over the world and be a blessing to all people. That means that you will do good things for them and make them strong.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:11-14

Lot's Removal to Sodom. ( b. c. 1917.) 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13… Read the whole commentary →

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