Because that Abraham obeyed my voice,.... In all things, and particularly in offering up his son at his command:and kept my charge; whatever was given him in charge to observe; this, as Aben Ezra thinks, is the general, of which the particulars follow:my commandments, my statutes, and my laws; whether moral, ceremonial, or civil and judicial; all and everyone which God enjoined him, he was careful to observe.
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Genesis 26:5
Genesis 26:5
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