Genesis 12:7
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7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.(A)
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Galatians 3:16
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16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring;[a] it does not say, “And to offsprings,”[b] as of many, but it says, “And to your offspring,”[c] that is, to one person, who is Christ.(A)
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Genesis 17:8
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8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding, and I will be their God.”(A)
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Genesis 17:1
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The Sign of the Covenant
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 blameless.(A)
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- 17.1 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
Genesis 18:1
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A Son Promised to Abraham and Sarah
18 The Lord appeared to Abraham[a] by the oaks[b] of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day.(A)
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Genesis 13:15
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15 for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.(A)
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Psalm 105:9-12
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9 the covenant that he made with Abraham,
his sworn promise to Isaac,(A)
10 which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant,(B)
11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as your portion for an inheritance.”(C)
12 When they were few in number,
of little account and strangers in it,(D)
Genesis 13:4
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4 to the place where he had made an altar at the first, and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.(A)
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Genesis 13:18
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18 So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks[a] of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.(A)
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- 13.18 Or terebinths
Exodus 33:1
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The Command to Leave Sinai
33 The Lord said to Moses, “Go, leave this place, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’(A)
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Genesis 32:30
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30 So Jacob called the place Peniel,[a] saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.”(A)
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- 32.30 That is, the face of God
Genesis 26:25
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25 So he built an altar there, called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.(A)
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Numbers 32:11
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11 ‘Surely none of the people who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and up, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not unreservedly followed me(A)—
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Genesis 12:8
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8 From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.(A)
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Hebrews 11:13
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13 All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,(A)
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Romans 9:8
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8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
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Genesis 22:9
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9 When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.(A)
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Genesis 17:3
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3 Then Abram fell on his face, and God said to him,
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Genesis 15:18
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18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates,(A)
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Galatians 4:28
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28 Now you,[a] my brothers and sisters, are children of the promise, like Isaac.
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- 4.28 Other ancient authorities read we
Deuteronomy 30:20
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20 loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him, for that means life to you and length of days, so that you may live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 6:10
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Caution against Disobedience
10 “When the Lord your God has brought you into the land that he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—a land with fine, large cities that you did not build,(A)
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Deuteronomy 1:8
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8 See, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.’(A)
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Exodus 6:3
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3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty,[a] but by my name ‘The Lord’[b] I did not make myself known to them.(A)
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Genesis 33:20
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20 There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.[a]
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- 33.20 That is, God, the God of Israel
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