Genesis 13:17
New International Version
Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”

New Living Translation
Go and walk through the land in every direction, for I am giving it to you.”

English Standard Version
Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.”

Berean Standard Bible
Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”

King James Bible
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

New King James Version
Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”

New American Standard Bible
Arise, walk about in the land through its length and width; for I will give it to you.”

NASB 1995
“Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.”

NASB 1977
“Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.”

Amplified Bible
Arise, walk (make a thorough reconnaissance) around in the land, through its length and its width, for I will give it to you.”

Christian Standard Bible
Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width, for I will give it to you.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width, for I will give it to you.”

American Standard Version
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Arise; walk in the land to its length and to its width because to you I shall give it.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Arise and traverse the land, both in the length of it and in the breadth; for to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

Contemporary English Version
Now walk back and forth across the land, because I am going to give it to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise and walk through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.

English Revised Version
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Go! Walk back and forth across the entire land because I will give it to you."

Good News Translation
Now, go and look over the whole land, because I am going to give it all to you."

International Standard Version
Get up! Walk throughout the length and breadth of the land, because I'm going to give it to you."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it.'

Literal Standard Version
rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to you I give it.”

Majority Standard Bible
Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”

New American Bible
Get up and walk through the land, across its length and breadth, for I give it to you.

NET Bible
Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you."

New Revised Standard Version
Rise up, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.”

New Heart English Bible
Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."

Webster's Bible Translation
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee.

World English Bible
Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”

Young's Literal Translation
rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
God Renews the Promise to Abram
16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted. 17Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.” 18So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.…

Cross References
Genesis 13:15
for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

Genesis 15:7
The LORD also told him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."

Genesis 17:8
And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing--all the land of Canaan--as an eternal possession; and I will be their God."

Genesis 28:13
And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.

Genesis 50:24
Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Numbers 13:17
When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, "Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.

2 Kings 13:23
But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.


Treasury of Scripture

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Genesis 13
1. Abram and Lot return with great riches out of Egypt.
6. Strife arises between Abram's herdsmen and those of Lot.
8. Abram allows Lot to choose his part of the country,
10. and Lot goes toward Sodom.
14. God renews his promise to Abram.
18. He moves to Hebron, and there builds an altar.














(17) Walk through the land.--Repeated change of scene is not merely one of the pleasures of the nomad life, but also a necessity; for the uplands, covered with rich herbage in the spring, are usually burnt up in summer, and in the winter are exposed to driving winds and rain-storms. In these journeyings Abram is now to have the tranquil pleasure of feeling that his seed will inherit each beautiful spot that he visits, and that he is taking possession of it, and hallowing it for them.

Verse 17. - Arise. According to a common mode of Oriental speech, pleonastically affixed to verbs of going, going forward, and of setting about anything with impulse (Gesenius, p. 727; cf. Genesis 22:3; Job 1:20). Walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it. To be understood not as a literal direction, but as an intimation that he might leisurely survey his inheritance with the calm assurance that it was his. For I will give it unto thee.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Get up
ק֚וּם (qūm)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

and walk
הִתְהַלֵּ֣ךְ (hiṯ·hal·lêḵ)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

around the land,
בָּאָ֔רֶץ (bā·’ā·reṣ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

through its length
לְאָרְכָּ֖הּ (lə·’ā·rə·kāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 753: Length

and width—
וּלְרָחְבָּ֑הּ (ū·lə·rā·ḥə·bāh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7341: Breadth, width

for
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I will give it
אֶתְּנֶֽנָּה׃ (’et·tə·nen·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

to you.”
לְךָ֖ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew


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