Genesis 26:5 meaning and explanation

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Genesis 26:5, Berean Standard Bible

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God is speaking to Isaac, who has been told to stay in the land rather than flee to Egypt during a famine. The LORD grounds His promise of land and descendants in Abraham's obedience, describing it with four overlapping terms: charge, commandments, statutes and laws.

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