42 Bible Verses about distance
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And if the way is too long for thee, so that thou are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there when LORD thy God shall bless thee,
Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near to it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go, for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
For thou shall see the land before thee, but thou shall not go there into the land which I give the sons of Israel.
And there were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were also Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the small man, and of Joses, and Salome;
And having seized him, they led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from afar.
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
then thou shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shall go to the place which LORD thy God shall choose.
And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out from the winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man.
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
And having risen, he went to his father. But while he was still distant, afar off, his father saw him and felt compassion. And having ran, he fell on his neck, and kissed him much.
For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
And many women were there watching from afar, who followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him,
Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
And having seen a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he will find anything on it. And when he came to it he found nothing except leaves, for it was not the time of figs.
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty. They shall behold a land that reaches afar.

And they saw him afar off. And before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth.
For even though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your orderliness, and the steadfastness of your faith for Christ.
Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off, a great space being between them.
And he said to Moses, Come up to LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship ye afar off.
So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people, for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite them afar off. And the two stood by the Jordan.
Because in one hour such great wealth was devastated. And every shipmaster, and every man who sails anywhere, and sailors, and as many as work by sea, stood from afar
He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage, nor does he believe that it is the voice of the trumpet.
Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, afar off from the camp, and he called it, The tent of meeting. And it came to pass, that everyone who sought LORD went out to the tent of meeting, which was outside
And having lifted up his eyes in Hades, being in torments, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus by his bosom.
And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.
And she went, and sat herself down opposite him a good way off, as it were a bowshot. For she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat opposite him, and the child lifted up its voice, and wept.
But Peter followed him from afar, as far as the courtyard of the high priest. And having entered inside, he sat with the subordinates to see the outcome.
The merchants of these things who became rich from her will stand from afar because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,
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Seeing At A Distance
Genesis 22:4On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.