³ And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

¹⁴ And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

²¹ He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

⁷ I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

12 Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

²³ For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

³⁵ Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

³⁶ For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

¹² Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

¹⁶ And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

² And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: