Genesis 12:3
3 aI will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and bin you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” ▼▼Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves
Genesis 12:7
7Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, d“To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.Genesis 15:1
God’s Covenant with Abram
1After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: e“Fear not, Abram, I am fyour shield; your reward shall be very great.”Genesis 15:4-5
4And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; gyour very own son ▼▼Hebrew what will come out of your own loins
shall be your heir.” 5And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and inumber the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, j“So shall your offspring be.” Genesis 15:7
7And he said to him, “I am the Lord who kbrought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans lto give you this land to possess.”Genesis 17:5-6
5No longer shall your name be called Abram, ▼▼ Abram means exalted father
but nyour name shall be Abraham, ▼▼ Abraham means father of a multitude
pfor I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make qyou into nations, and rkings shall come from you. Genesis 17:8
8And sI 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 tI will be their God.”
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