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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,(A)

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25 You are the descendants of the prophets and of the covenant that God gave to your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’(A)

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And the scripture, foreseeing that God would reckon as righteous the gentiles by faith, declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the gentiles shall be blessed in you.”(A)

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17 I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,(A) 18 and by your offspring shall all the nations of the earth gain blessing for themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.”(B)

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He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”(A)

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13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”(A)

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16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.(A)

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I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.(A) I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[a](B)

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  1. 12.3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves

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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  1. 3.16 Gk seed
  2. 3.16 Gk seeds
  3. 3.16 Gk seed

17 May his name endure forever,
    his fame continue as long as the sun.
May all nations be blessed in him;[a]
    may they pronounce him happy.(A)

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  1. 72.17 Or bless themselves by him

“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations.(A) No longer shall your name be Abram,[a] but your name shall be Abraham,[b] for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations.(B) I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.(C) I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.(D) 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.”(E)

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  1. 17.5 That is, exalted ancestor
  2. 17.5 That is, ancestor of a multitude

Indeed, by faith[a] our ancestors received approval.

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  1. 11.2 Gk by this

18 seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?[a](A)

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  1. 18.18 Or and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him

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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