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God said to Abraham, ‘Leave your country and your relatives. Go to the land I will show you.’[a] So Abraham left the country of Chaldea and went to live in Haran. After Abraham’s father died, God sent him to this place where you now live. God did not give Abraham any of this land, not even a foot of it. But God promised that he would give him and his descendants this land. (This was before Abraham had any descendants.)

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  1. 7:3 ‘Leave . . . you.’ Quotation from Genesis 12:1.

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