⁷ 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.

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,

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.

² And the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell ^(A)in the land of which I shall tell you.

²⁴ And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, ^(A)“I am the God of Abraham your father. ^(B)Fear not, for ^(C)I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.”

⁹ God appeared^[a] to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

^2 (A)And ^(B)the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. ³ And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” ⁴ When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, ^(C)God called to him ^(D)out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” ⁵ Then he said, “Do not come near; ^(E)take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” ⁶ And he said, ^(F)“I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for ^(G)he was afraid to look at God.

³ 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.

⁹ Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and ^(A)seventy of the elders of Israel ^(B)went up, ¹⁰ and they ^(C)saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of ^(D)sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. ¹¹ And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ^(E)ate and drank.