When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
- BSB When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
- NKJV Then He finished talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
- NASB When He finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
- NLT When God had finished speaking, he left Abraham.
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Cross-references · 10
- Gen 35:9–15God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
- Gen 18:33Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
- Judg 13:20For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, Yahweh’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
- John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
- Gen 17:3Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,
- Deut 5:4Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,
- Num 12:6–8He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
- John 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
- Judg 6:21Then Yahweh’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then Yahweh’s angel departed out of his sight.
- Exod 20:22Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
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