Genesis 12:2-3

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²“I will make you into a great nation,^(A)
    and I will bless you;^(B)
I will make your name great,
    and you will be a blessing.^[a]^(C)
³I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;^(D)
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.^(E)”^[b]

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Footnotes

Genesis 12:2 Or be seen as blessed
Genesis 12:3 Or earth / will use your name in blessings (see 48:20)

Genesis 18:19

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¹⁹For I have chosen him^(A), so that he will direct his children^(B) and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord^(C) by doing what is right and just,^(D) so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”^(E)

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Nehemiah 9:7

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⁷“You are the Lord God, who chose Abram^(A) and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans^(B) and named him Abraham.^(C)

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Isaiah 44:1

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Israel the Chosen

44 “But now listen, Jacob, my servant,^(A)
Israel, whom I have chosen.^(B)

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Amos 3:2

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²“You only have I chosen^(A)
of all the families of the earth;
therefore I will punish^(B) you
for all your sins.^(C)”

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Matthew 1:21

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²¹She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,^[a]^(A) because he will save his people from their sins.”^(B)

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Matthew 1:21 Jesus is the Greek form of Joshua, which means the Lord saves.

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Luke 1:13

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¹³But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid,^(A) Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.^(B)

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