Psalm 105:8-11

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He has remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded and established to a ^[a]thousand generations,
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The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His sworn oath to Isaac,^(A)
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Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
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Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the measured portion of your inheritance.”

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Footnotes

Psalm 105:8 There were twenty-six recorded generations from Adam to Moses. The ancient rabbis took “thousand” here very literally and maintained that God originally planned to give the Law to the thousandth generation, but He foresaw that they would be wicked, so He declined to create 974 generations and gave the Law to the twenty-sixth generation (Moses) instead.