Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Parallel translations
- WEB Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
- KJV And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
- BSB And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.
- NASB Now Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.
- NLT (Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.)
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Quick answer
Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold. God's material blessing on him is evident.
Overview
The note of Abram's great wealth shows the Lord's blessing, partly through the Egyptian episode. Such prosperity, however, soon creates tension between Abram and Lot. Material blessing in Scripture is real yet always subordinate to the greater spiritual blessings of God's promise and presence.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 112:1–3Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
- Gen 24:35Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
- Gen 26:12–13Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- Job 22:21–25“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.
- Prov 10:22Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
- Job 1:10Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
- Deut 8:18But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
- Job 1:3His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
- Matt 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Prov 3:9–10Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
- 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
- 1 Sam 2:7Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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