¹² For ^(A)You said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the ^(B)sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’ ”

^13 (A)And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: ^(B)“I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; ^(C)the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. ¹⁴ Also your ^(D)descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad ^(E)to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and ^(F)in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. ¹⁵ Behold, ^(G)I am with you and will ^(H)keep^[a] you wherever you go, and will ^(I)bring you back to this land; for ^(J)I will not leave you ^(K)until I have done what I have spoken to you.”

¹⁷ Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to ^(A)the heirs of promise ^(B)the ^[a]immutability of His counsel, ^[b]confirmed it by an oath,

² in hope of eternal life which God, who ^(A)cannot lie, promised before time began,

^35 (A)Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

³ So He said, “I am God, ^(A)the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will ^(B)make of you a great nation there. ^4 (C)I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely ^(D)bring you up again; and ^(E)Joseph ^[a]will put his hand on your eyes.”

¹⁷ blessing I will ^(A)bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants ^(B)as the stars of the heaven ^(C)and as the sand which is on the seashore; and ^(D)your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.

²⁹ And also the Strength of Israel ^(A)will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.”