Genesis 13:17

Go and walk through the whole land in all directions because I'm giving it to you.”

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In The King James Version

Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

In Context

16You will have so many descendants that they'll be like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count dust then they could count the number of your descendants!

18So Abram went to live at Hebron, setting up his tents among the oaks at Mamre, where he built an altar to the Lord.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:15I'm giving all this land you see to you and your descendants forever.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:15-18

God Confirms His Promise to Abram. ( b. c. 1917.) 14 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: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of… Read the whole commentary →

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