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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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

(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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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

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

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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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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

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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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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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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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

From there he moved to the hill country on the east of (A)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 called upon the name of the Lord.

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13 These all died in faith, (A)not having received the things promised, but (B)having seen them and greeted them from afar, and (C)having acknowledged that they were (D)strangers and exiles on the earth.

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This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but (A)the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

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28 Now you,[a] brothers, (A)like Isaac, (B)are children of promise.

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  1. Galatians 4:28 Some manuscripts we

20 loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice (A)and holding fast to him, for (B)he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in (C)the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”

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10 “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities (A)that you did not build,

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See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, (A)to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.’

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I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as (A)God Almighty,[a] but by my name the (B)Lord I did not make myself known to them.

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  1. Exodus 6:3 Hebrew El Shaddai

20 There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.[a]

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  1. Genesis 33:20 El-Elohe-Israel means God, the God of Israel

13 And behold, (A)the Lord stood above it[a] and said, (B)“I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. (C)The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.

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  1. Genesis 28:13 Or beside him

(A)Sojourn in this land, and (B)I will be with you and will bless you, for (C)to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish (D)the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.

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When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and (A)laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

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