^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.

¹⁶ Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of ^(A)one, ^(B)“And to your Seed,” who is ^(C)Christ.

⁸ Also ^(A)I give to you and your descendants after you the land ^(B)in^[a] which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and ^(C)I will be their God.”

The Sign of the Covenant^(A)

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord ^(B)appeared to Abram and said to him, ^(C)“I am ^[a]Almighty God; ^(D)walk before Me and be ^(E)blameless.

The Son of Promise^(A)

18 Then the Lord appeared to him by ^[a]the ^(B)terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.

¹⁵ for all the land which you see ^(A)I give to you and ^(B)your ^[a]descendants forever.

⁴ to the ^(A)place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram ^(B)called on the name of the Lord.

^18 (A)Then Abram moved his tent, and went and ^(B)dwelt by ^[a]the terebinth trees of Mamre, ^(C)which are in Hebron, and built an ^(D)altar there to the Lord.