Genesis 13:17 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 13:17

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”

YLT

rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'

DBT

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

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Genesis 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;
Genesis 13:15
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Zechariah 6:7
And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
Genesis 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

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To thee, that is, to thy seed. The granting of it to him and his for ever intimates that it was typical of the heavenly Canaan, which is given to the spiritual seed of Abram for ever, Heb. xi. (3.) He gives him livery and seisin of it, though it was a reversion: " Arise, walk through the land,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Enter, and take possession, survey the parcels, and it will appear better than upon a distant prospect." Note, God is willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of his covenant, and the inestimable worth of covenant blessings.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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