Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, (A)“To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

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And (A)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 (B)I will be their God.”

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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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Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision

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

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  1. Genesis 17:1 Hebrew 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

(A)the covenant that he made with Abraham,
    his (B)sworn promise to Isaac,
10 which he confirmed to (C)Jacob as a statute,
    to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
11 saying, (D)“To you I will give the land of Canaan
    as (E)your portion for an inheritance.”

12 When they were (F)few in number,
    of little account, and (G)sojourners 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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18 And the Lord appeared to him by the (A)oaks[a] of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.

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  1. Genesis 18:1 Or terebinths

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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16 Now (A)the promises were made (B)to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, (C)“And to your offspring,” who is 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

15 for all the land that you see I will give (A)to you and (B)to your offspring forever.

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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

The Command to Leave Sinai

33 The Lord said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you (A)and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To (B)your offspring 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 Peniel,[a] saying, “For (A)I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”

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  1. Genesis 32:30 Peniel means the 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 called upon the name of the Lord and 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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to (A)the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon 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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11 ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, (A)from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give (B)to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because 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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18 So Abram moved his tent and came and (A)settled by the (B)oaks[a] of Mamre, which (C)are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.

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  1. Genesis 13:18 Or terebinths

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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