Genesis 12:1-3
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The Call of Abram
12 Now (A)the Lord said[a] to Abram, “Go from your country[b] and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 (B)And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 (C)I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and (D)in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[c]
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- Genesis 12:1 Or had said
- Genesis 12:1 Or land
- Genesis 12:3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves
Genesis 13:14-18
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14 The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, (A)northward and southward and eastward and westward, 15 for all the land that you see I will give (B)to you and (C)to your offspring forever. 16 (D)I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted. 17 Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.” 18 So Abram moved his tent and came and (E)settled by the (F)oaks[a] of Mamre, which (G)are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
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- Genesis 13:18 Or terebinths
Genesis 15:4-5
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4 And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; (A)your very own son[a] shall be your heir.” 5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and (B)number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, (C)“So shall your offspring be.”
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- Genesis 15:4 Hebrew what will come out of your own loins
Genesis 17:1-8
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Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision
17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;[a] walk before me, and be (A)blameless, 2 that I may make my covenant between me and you, and (B)may multiply you greatly.” 3 Then Abram (C)fell on his face. And God said to him, 4 “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be (D)the father of a multitude of nations. 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram,[b] but (E)your name shall be Abraham,[c] (F)for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make (G)you into nations, and (H)kings shall come from you. 7 And I will (I)establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, (J)to be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8 And (K)I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and (L)I will be their God.”
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- Genesis 17:1 Hebrew El Shaddai
- Genesis 17:5 Abram means exalted father
- Genesis 17:5 Abraham means father of a multitude
Genesis 18:18
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18 seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be (A)blessed in him?
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Genesis 22:18
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18 and (A)in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, (B)because you have obeyed my voice.”
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