36 Bible Verses About Relocation

Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.

And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan–aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

And he called the name of that place Beth–el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan–aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:

And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

I am the God of Beth–el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.

And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth–el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth–el, he and all the people that were with him.

Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.

The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

And he went up from thence to Beer–sheba.

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.

So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:

And Jacob rose up from Beer–sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.

And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.

And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije–abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:

Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the Lord, wherein the Lord’s tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the Lord, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the Lord our God.

And there was a young man out of Beth–lehem–judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed–edom the Gittite.

Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.