(A)Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, (B)“To your [a]descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an (C)altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

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  1. Genesis 12:7 Lit. seed

16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of (A)one, (B)“And to your Seed,” who is (C)Christ.

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16 The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed.(A) Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,”[a](B) meaning one person, who is Christ.

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  1. Galatians 3:16 Gen. 12:7; 13:15; 24:7

Also (A)I give to you and your descendants after you the land (B)in[a] which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and (C)I will be their God.”

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  1. Genesis 17:8 Lit. of your sojournings

The whole land of Canaan,(A) where you now reside as a foreigner,(B) I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you;(C) and I will be their God.(D)

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The Sign of the Covenant(A)

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord (B)appeared to Abram and said to him, (C)“I am [a]Almighty God; (D)walk before Me and be (E)blameless.

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  1. Genesis 17:1 Heb. El Shaddai

The Covenant of Circumcision

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old,(A) the Lord appeared to him(B) and said, “I am God Almighty[a];(C) walk before me faithfully and be blameless.(D)

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  1. Genesis 17:1 Hebrew El-Shaddai

The Son of Promise(A)

18 Then the Lord appeared to him by [a]the (B)terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.

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  1. Genesis 18:1 Heb. Alon Mamre

The Three Visitors

18 The Lord appeared to Abraham(A) near the great trees of Mamre(B) while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent(C) in the heat of the day.

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15 for all the land which you see (A)I give to you and (B)your [a]descendants forever.

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  1. Genesis 13:15 Lit. seed

15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring[a] forever.(A)

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  1. Genesis 13:15 Or seed; also in verse 16

(A)The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac,
10 And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
11 Saying, (B)“To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the allotment of your inheritance,”
12 (C)When they were few in number,
Indeed very few, (D)and strangers in it.

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the covenant he made with Abraham,(A)
    the oath he swore to Isaac.
10 He confirmed it(B) to Jacob as a decree,
    to Israel as an everlasting covenant:(C)
11 “To you I will give the land of Canaan(D)
    as the portion you will inherit.”(E)

12 When they were but few in number,(F)
    few indeed, and strangers in it,(G)

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to the (A)place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram (B)called on the name of the Lord.

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and where he had first built an altar.(A) There Abram called on the name of the Lord.(B)

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18 (A)Then Abram moved his tent, and went and (B)dwelt by [a]the terebinth trees of Mamre, (C)which are in Hebron, and built an (D)altar there to the Lord.

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  1. Genesis 13:18 Heb. Alon Mamre

18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre(A) at Hebron,(B) where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.(C)

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The Command to Leave Sinai

33 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Depart and go up from here, you (A)and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, (B)‘To your descendants I will give it.’

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33 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath(A) to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’(B)

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30 So Jacob called the name of the place [a]Peniel: “For (A)I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

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  1. Genesis 32:30 Lit. Face of God

30 So Jacob called the place Peniel,[a] saying, “It is because I saw God face to face,(A) and yet my life was spared.”

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  1. Genesis 32:30 Peniel means face of God.

25 So he (A)built an altar there and (B)called on the name of the Lord, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

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25 Isaac built an altar(A) there and called on the name of the Lord.(B) There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.(C)

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11 ‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, (A)from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because (B)they have not wholly followed Me,

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11 ‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more(A) when they came up out of Egypt(B) will see the land I promised on oath(C) to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob(D)

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