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Genesis 21:34

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then Abraham lived a long time as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines.

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Abraham moved to the Southern Desert, where he settled between Kadesh and Shur. Later he went to Gerar, and while there

Abraham and Isaac went back to the servants who had come with him, and they returned to Abraham's home in Beersheba.

We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears.

“Listen, LORD, to my prayer! My eyes are flooded with tears, as I pray to you. I am merely a stranger visiting your home as my ancestors did.

Every one of those people died. But they still had faith, even though they had not received what they had been promised. They were glad just to see these things from far away, and they agreed that they were only strangers and foreigners on this earth.

Because Abraham had faith, he lived as a stranger in the promised land. He lived there in a tent, and so did Isaac and Jacob, who were later given the same promise.

Dear friends, you are foreigners and strangers on this earth. So I beg you not to surrender to those desires that fight against you.




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