Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and built there an altar to the LORD.

New American Standard Bible

Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.

King James Version

Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

Holman Bible

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.

International Standard Version

So Abram moved his tent and settled beside the oaks of Mamre that are by Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto Jehovah.

Amplified

Then Abram broke camp and moved his tent, and came and settled by the [grove of the great] terebinths (oak trees) of Mamre [the Amorite], which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to [honor] the Lord.

Bible in Basic English

And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

Darby Translation

Then Abram moved his tents, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron. And he built there an altar to Jehovah.

Julia Smith Translation

And Abram will pitch his tent, and will come and will dwell by the oaks of Mamra which is in Hebron, and he will build there an altar to Jehovah.

King James 2000

Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

Lexham Expanded Bible

So Abram pitched his tent, and he came and settled at the oaks of Mamre, which [were] at Hebron. And there he built an altar to Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

And Abram moved his tent and came and lived in the oaks of Mamre, which is in Hebron. And he built an altar to Jehovah there.

NET Bible

So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

So Abram moved his tent and came in and dwelt among the oaks of Mamre, which were in Hebron, - and built there an altar to Yahweh.

Webster

Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the LORD.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

And Abram tenteth, and cometh, and dwelleth among the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and buildeth there an altar to Jehovah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
H87
אברם 
'Abram 
Usage: 61

אהל 
'ahal 
Usage: 4

and came

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

and dwelt
ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

in the plain
אלון 
'elown 
Usage: 10

of Mamre
ממרא 
Mamre' 
Usage: 10

which is in Hebron
חברון 
Chebrown 
Usage: 71

and built
בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

מזבּח 
Mizbeach 
Usage: 401

Context Readings

The Lord's Third Promise To Abram

17 Arise, and walk about in the land, in the length of it and in the breadth, for I will give it unto thee." 18 Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and built there an altar to the LORD.



Cross References

Genesis 14:13

Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; which dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner, which were confederate with Abram.

Genesis 8:20

And Noah made an altar unto the LORD, and took of all manner of clean beasts and all manner of clean fowls, and offered sacrifice upon the altar.

Genesis 35:27

Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre, a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.

Genesis 12:7-8

Then the LORD appeared unto Abram and said, "Unto thy seed will I give this land." And he built an altar there unto the LORD which appeared to him.

Genesis 18:1

And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.

Genesis 13:4

and unto the place of the altar which he made before. And there called Abram upon the name, of the LORD.

Genesis 23:2

and then died in a head-city called Hebron in the land of Canaan. Then Abraham came to mourn Sara and to weep for her.

Genesis 37:14

And he said unto him, "Go and see whether it be well with thy brethren and the sheep, and bring me word again." And sent him out of the vale of Hebron, for to go to Shechem.

Numbers 13:22

and they ascended unto the south and came unto Hebron: where Ahiman was, and Sheshai and Talmai; the sons of Anak. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

Joshua 14:13

And Joshua blessed Caleb the son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron to inherit.

Psalm 16:8

I have set the LORD always before me; for he is on my righthand. Therefore I shall not fall.

1 Timothy 2:8

I will, therefore, that the men pray every where, lifting up pure hands without wrath, or doubting.

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