Genesis 26:2
Good News Translation
The LORD had appeared to Isaac and had said, "Do not go to Egypt; stay in this land, where I tell you to stay.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; settle in the land that I shall show you.

Contemporary English Version
because the LORD had appeared to Isaac and said: Isaac, stay away from Egypt! I will show you where I want you to go.

New American Bible
The LORD appeared to him and said: Do not go down to Egypt, but camp in this land wherever I tell you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.

appeared.

Genesis 12:7 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 17:1 And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

Genesis 18:1,10-20 And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day. . . .

dwell.

Genesis 12:1 And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Psalm 37:3 Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches.

Context
God's Promise to Isaac
1And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestines, to Gerara. 2And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.3And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.…
Cross References
Genesis 12:1
And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Genesis 12:7
And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 17:1
And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

Genesis 17:19
And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

Genesis 18:1
And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day.

Genesis 26:24
Where the Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father, do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

Exodus 2:24
And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Leviticus 26:42
And I will remember my covenant, that I made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will remember also the land:

Genesis 26:1
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