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Genesis 21:34

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And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
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  1. 1 Chronicles 29:15Rank 1 from verse 34
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    15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

  2. 1 Peter 2:11Rank 2 from verse 34
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    11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

  3. Genesis 20:1Rank 3 from verse 34
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    1AND Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

  4. Hebrews 11:13Rank 4 from verse 34
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    13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

  5. Hebrews 11:9Rank 5 from verse 34
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    9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

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Genesis 21:34

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Abraham

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The patriarch formerly named Abram, whom God appointed to be a father of many nations.

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sojourned

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of sojourn, meaning to dwell, lodge, or live temporarily in a place as a stranger, traveller, foreigner, guest, or resident without permanent possession.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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land

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Sense 1: The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region. Sense 2: To set or come on shore.

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21:33¶ And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.

21:34And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.

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