Genesis 15:7
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7 Then He said to him, “I am the Lord, who (A)brought you out of (B)Ur of the Chaldeans, (C)to give you this land to inherit it.”
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Acts 7:2-4
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2 And he said, (A)“Brethren and fathers, listen: The (B)God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in (C)Haran, 3 and said to him, (D)‘Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.’ 4 Then (E)he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was (F)dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell.
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Genesis 12:1
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Promises to Abram(A)
12 Now the (B)Lord had said to Abram:
“Get (C)out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
Romans 4:13
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The Promise Granted Through Faith
13 For the promise that he would be the (A)heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
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Psalm 105:44
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- Psalm 105:44 nations
Psalm 105:42
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42 For He remembered (A)His holy promise,
And Abraham His servant.
Nehemiah 9:7-8
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7 “You are the Lord God,
Who chose (A)Abram,
And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans,
And gave him the name (B)Abraham;
8 You found his heart (C)faithful before You,
And made a (D)covenant with him
To give the land of the Canaanites,
The Hittites, the Amorites,
The Perizzites, the Jebusites,
And the Girgashites—
To give it to his descendants.
You (E)have performed Your words,
For You are righteous.
Genesis 13:15-17
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15 for all the land which you see (A)I give to you and (B)your [a]descendants forever. 16 And (C)I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. 17 Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”
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- Genesis 13:15 Lit. seed
Psalm 105:11
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11 Saying, (A)“To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the allotment of your inheritance,”
Genesis 12:7
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7 (A)Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, (B)“To your [a]descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an (C)altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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- Genesis 12:7 Lit. seed
Genesis 11:28-31
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28 And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was (A)Sarai,[a] and the name of Nahor’s wife, (B)Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. 30 But (C)Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terah (D)took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from (E)Ur of the Chaldeans to go to (F)the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.
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- Genesis 11:29 Sarah, Gen. 17:15
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