²¹ But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year.”

² The Lord appeared to Isaac^[a] and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; settle in the land that I shall show you.^{(A) 3} Reside in this land as an alien, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.^{(B) 4} I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring,^{(C) 5} because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

² Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him.^{(A) 3} Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him.^(B)

²⁹ And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring,^[a] heirs according to the promise.^(A)

⁵ to them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, comes the Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever.^[a] Amen.^(A)

⁶ It is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those descended from Israel are Israelites,^(B)

¹⁰ Then one said, “I will surely return to you in due season, and your wife Sarah shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him.^(A)

⁹ By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.^(A)

⁹ For the word of the promise is this: “About this time I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.”^(A)

⁷ He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.^(A)