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Genesis 13:5

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¶ And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
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  1. Genesis 25:27Rank 1 from verse 5
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    27And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

  2. Genesis 4:20Rank 2 from verse 5
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    20And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

  3. Jeremiah 49:29Rank 3 from verse 5
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    29Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.

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Genesis 13:5

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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tents

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Portable shelters or dwellings; by association, the dwellings or encampment of a household or people.

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13:5¶ And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

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13:6And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

13:7And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

13:8And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

13:9Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

13:10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

13:11Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

13:12Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

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