Genesis 13:17

Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”

World English Bible

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

16I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

18Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:15for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring 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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