2 n 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 o I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and p in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” [1]
7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, v “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
14 The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, o northward and southward and eastward and westward, 15 for all the land that you see I will give p to you and q to your offspring forever. 16 r 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.”
4 And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; f your very own son [2] shall be your heir.” 5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and g number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, h “So shall your offspring be.”
17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; [3] walk before me, and be n blameless, 2 that I may make my covenant between me and you, and o may multiply you greatly.” 3 Then Abram p fell on his face. And God said to him, 4 “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be q the father of a multitude of nations. 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, [4] but r your name shall be Abraham, [5] s for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make t you into nations, and u kings shall come from you. 7 And I will v establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, w to be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8 And x 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 y I will be their God.”
9 And God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a z sign of the covenant between me and you. 12 He who is a eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or b bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring, 13 both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant. 14 Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
18 seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be d blessed in him?
16 and said, s “By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring t as the stars of heaven and u as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess v the gate of his [6] enemies, 18 and w in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, x because you have obeyed my voice.”
2 And the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell x in the land of which I shall tell you. 3 y Sojourn in this land, and z I will be with you and will bless you, for a to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish b the oath that I swore to Abraham your father. 4 c I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And d in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, 5 because e Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
13 And behold, t the Lord stood above it [7] and said, u “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. v The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. 14 Your offspring shall be like w the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and x your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 15 Behold, y I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and z will bring you back to this land. For I will a not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
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