Genesis 26:5
New International Version
because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.”

New Living Translation
I will do this because Abraham listened to me and obeyed all my requirements, commands, decrees, and instructions.”

English Standard Version
because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

Berean Standard Bible
because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

King James Bible
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

New King James Version
because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

New American Standard Bible
because Abraham obeyed Me and fulfilled his duty to Me, and kept My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

NASB 1995
because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.”

NASB 1977
because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.”

Legacy Standard Bible
because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Amplified Bible
because Abraham listened to and obeyed My voice and [consistently] kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Christian Standard Bible
because Abraham listened to me and kept my mandate, my commands, my statutes, and my instructions.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My mandate, My commands, My statutes, and My instructions.”

American Standard Version
because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For the sake of Abraham, who heard my voice and kept my observances and my commandments and my covenants and my laws.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Because Abraam thy father hearkened to my voice, and kept my injunctions, and my commandments, and my ordinances, and my statutes.

Contemporary English Version
because Abraham did everything I told him to do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.

English Revised Version
because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I will bless you because Abraham obeyed me and completed the duties, commands, laws, and instructions I gave him."

Good News Translation
I will bless you, because Abraham obeyed me and kept all my laws and commands."

International Standard Version
I'm going to do this because Abraham did what I told him to do. He kept my instructions, commands, statutes, and laws."

JPS Tanakh 1917
because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.'

Literal Standard Version
because that Abraham has listened to My voice, and keeps My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.”

Majority Standard Bible
because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

New American Bible
this because Abraham obeyed me, keeping my mandate, my commandments, my ordinances, and my instructions.

NET Bible
All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

New Revised Standard Version
because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

New Heart English Bible
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

Webster's Bible Translation
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

World English Bible
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

Young's Literal Translation
because that Abraham hath hearkened to My voice, and keepeth My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.'

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Context
God's Promise to Isaac
4I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, 5because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Cross References
Genesis 22:16
saying, "By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,

Genesis 22:18
And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."

Genesis 26:6
So Isaac settled in Gerar.


Treasury of Scripture

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Genesis 12:4
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Genesis 17:23
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

Genesis 18:19
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

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Genesis 26
1. Isaac, because of famine, sojourns in Gerar, and the Lord blesses him.
7. He is reproved by Abimelech for denying his wife.
12. He grows rich, and the Philistines envy his prosperity.
18. He digs wells.
23. God appears to him at Beersheba, and blesses him;
26. and Abimelech makes a covenant with him.
34. Esau's wives.














Verse 5. - Because that Abraham obeyed (literally, hearkened to) my voice (a general description of the patriarch's obedience, which the next clause further particularizes), and kept my charge, custodierit custodiam (Calvin); observed my observances (Kalisch); the charge being that which is intended to be kept - my commandments, - i.e. particular injunctions, specific enactments, express or occasional orders (cf. 2 Chronicles 35:16) - my statutes, - or permanent ordinances, such as the Passover; literally, that which is graven on tables or monuments (compare Exodus 12:14) - and my laws - which refer to the great doctrines of moral obligation. The three terms express the contents of the Divine observances which Abraham observed.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
because
עֵ֕קֶב (‘ê·qeḇ)
Conjunction
Strong's 6118: A heel, the last of anything, result, compensation, on account of

Abraham
אַבְרָהָ֖ם (’aḇ·rā·hām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 85: Abraham -- 'exalted father', the father of the Jewish nation

listened
שָׁמַ֥ע (šā·ma‘)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

to My voice
בְּקֹלִ֑י (bə·qō·lî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

and kept
וַיִּשְׁמֹר֙ (way·yiš·mōr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

My charge,
מִשְׁמַרְתִּ֔י (miš·mar·tî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4931: A guard, watch, charge, function

My commandments,
מִצְוֺתַ֖י (miṣ·wō·ṯay)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4687: Commandment

My statutes,
חֻקּוֹתַ֥י (ḥuq·qō·w·ṯay)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2708: Something prescribed, an enactment, statute

and My laws.”
וְתוֹרֹתָֽי׃ (wə·ṯō·w·rō·ṯāy)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law


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