Genesis 20:1
Good News Translation
Abraham moved from Mamre to the southern part of Canaan and lived between Kadesh and Shur. Later, while he was living in Gerar,

New Revised Standard Version
From there Abraham journeyed toward the region of the Negeb, and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While residing in Gerar as an alien,

Contemporary English Version
Abraham moved to the Southern Desert, where he settled between Kadesh and Shur. Later he went to Gerar, and while there

New American Bible
From there Abraham journeyed on to the region of the Negeb, where he settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he resided in Gerar as an alien,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

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Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

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Genesis 13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him into the south.

Genesis 18:1 And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day.

Genesis 24:62 At the same time, Isaac was walking along the way to the well which is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south country:

Kadesh.

Genesis 14:7 And they returned, and came to the fountain of Misphat, the same is Cades: and they smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the Amorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar.

Genesis 16:1,7,14 Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar, . . .

Numbers 13:26 And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land:

Numbers 20:16 And how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an angel, who hath brought us out of Egypt. Lo, we are now in the city of Cades, which is in the uttermost of thy borders,

Deuteronomy 1:19 And departing from Horeb, we passed through the terrible and vast wilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorrhite, as the Lord our God had commanded us. And when we were come into Cadesbarne,

Deuteronomy 32:51 Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction, in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.

1 Samuel 15:7 And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur, which is over against Egypt.

Psalm 29:8 The voice of the Lord shaketh the desert: and the Lord shall shake the desert of Cades.

Gerar.

25 miles from Eleutheropolis beyond Daroma, in the south of Judah. From ch.

Genesis 10:19 And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa.

, it appears to have been situated in the angle where the south and west sides of Canaan met, and to have been not far from Gaza. Jerome, in his Hebrew Traditions on Genesis, says, from Gerar to Jerusalem was three days' journey. There was a wood near Gerar, spoken of by Theodoret; and a brook, (ch.

Genesis 26:26 To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers, came from Gerara,

,) on which was a monastery, noticed by Sozomen.

Genesis 10:19 And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa.

Genesis 26:1,6,20,26 And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestines, to Gerara. . . .

2 Chronicles 14:13,14 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them to Gerara: and the Ethiopians fell even to utter destruction, for the Lord slew them, and his army fought against them, and they were destroyed. And they took abundance of spoils, . . .

Context
Abraham, Sarah, and Abimelech
1Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.2And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her.…
Cross References
Genesis 12:9
And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.

Genesis 16:7
And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,

Genesis 18:1
And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day.

Genesis 24:62
At the same time, Isaac was walking along the way to the well which is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south country:

Genesis 25:18
And he dwelt from Hevila as far as Sur, which looketh towards Egypt, to them that go towards the Assyrians. He died in the presence of all his brethren.

Genesis 26:1
And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestines, to Gerara.

Genesis 26:6
So Isaac abode in Gerara.

Exodus 15:22
And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth into the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the wilderness, and found no water.

Genesis 19:38
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