Genesis 15:12-21

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¹²Now when the sun was going down, ^(A)a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, ^[a]terror and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³Then God said to Abram, “Know for certain that ^(B)your ^[b]descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, ^[c]where ^(C)they will be enslaved and oppressed for ^(D)four hundred years. ¹⁴But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out ^(E)with ^[d]many possessions. ¹⁵As for you, ^(F)you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶Then in ^(G)the fourth generation they will return here, for ^(H)the wrongdoing of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

¹⁷Now it came about, when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, a smoking oven and a flaming torch appeared which ^(I)passed between these pieces. ¹⁸On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,

“^(J)To your ^[e]descendants I have given this land,
From ^(K)the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

¹⁹^(L)the land of the Kenite, the Kenizzite, the Kadmonite, ²⁰the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Rephaim, ²¹the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.”

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Footnotes

Genesis 15:12 Or a terror of great darkness
Genesis 15:13 Lit seed
Genesis 15:13 Lit and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them
Genesis 15:14 Lit great
Genesis 15:18 Lit seed

Genesis 22:15-17

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¹⁵Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, ¹⁶and said, “^(A)By Myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son, ¹⁷indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly ^(B)multiply your ^[a]seed as the stars of the heavens and as ^(C)the sand, which is on the seashore; and ^(D)your ^[b]seed shall possess the gate of ^[c]their enemies.

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Genesis 22:17 Or descendants
Genesis 22:17 Or descendants
Genesis 22:17 Lit his

Leviticus 26:45

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⁴⁵But I will remember for them the ^(A)covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, so that ^(B)I might be their God. I am the Lord.’”

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Leviticus 26:45 in all English translations

Isaiah 52:13-53:12

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The Exalted Servant

¹³Behold, My ^(A)Servant will prosper,
He will be high and lifted up and ^[a]greatly ^(B)exalted.
¹⁴Just as many were appalled at you, My people,
So His ^(C)appearance was marred beyond that of a man,
And His form beyond the sons of mankind.
¹⁵So ^[b]He will ^(D)sprinkle many nations,
Kings will ^(E)shut their mouths on account of Him;
For ^(F)what they had not been told, they will see,
And what they had not heard, they will understand.

The Suffering Servant

53 ^(G)Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
²For He grew up before Him like a ^(H)tender ^[c]shoot,
And like a root out of dry ground;
He has ^(I)no stately form or majesty
That we would look at Him,
Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him.
³He was ^(J)despised and abandoned by men,
A man of ^[d]great pain and ^(K)familiar with sickness;
And like one from whom people hide their faces,
He was ^(L)despised, and we had no ^(M)regard for Him.

⁴However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself ^(N)bore,
And our pains that He carried;
Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted,
Struck down by ^(O)God, and humiliated.
⁵But He was ^[e]pierced for ^(P)our offenses,
He was crushed for ^(Q)our wrongdoings;
The ^(R)punishment for our ^[f]well-being was laid upon Him,
And by ^(S)His wounds we are healed.
⁶All of us, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all
To ^[g]fall on Him.

⁷He was oppressed and afflicted,
Yet He did not ^(T)open His mouth;
^(U)Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
⁸By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off from the land of the ^[h]living
^(V)For the wrongdoing of my people, to whom the blow was due?
⁹And His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a ^(W)rich man in His death,
^(X)Because He had ^(Y)done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

¹⁰But the Lord desired
To ^(Z)crush Him, ^[i]^(AA)causing Him grief;
If He renders ^[j]Himself as a guilt ^(AB)offering,
He will see ^(AC)His ^[k]offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the ^[l]good ^(AD)pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
¹¹As a result of the ^[m]anguish of His soul,
He will ^[n]^(AE)see it and be satisfied;
By His ^(AF)knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
For He will ^(AG)bear their wrongdoings.
¹²Therefore, I will allot Him a ^(AH)portion with the great,
And He will divide the plunder with the strong,
Because He poured out His ^[o]^(AI)life unto death,
And was ^(AJ)counted with wrongdoers;
Yet He Himself ^(AK)bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the wrongdoers.

Footnotes

Isaiah 52:13 Or very high
Isaiah 52:15 LXX many nations will wonder at Him
Isaiah 53:2 Lit suckling
Isaiah 53:3 Lit pains
Isaiah 53:5 Or wounded
Isaiah 53:5 Or peace
Isaiah 53:6 Lit encounter Him
Isaiah 53:8 Or life
Isaiah 53:10 Lit He made Him sick
Isaiah 53:10 Lit His soul
Isaiah 53:10 Lit seed
Isaiah 53:10 Or will of
Isaiah 53:11 Or trouble
Isaiah 53:11 DSS see light; LXX also has light
Isaiah 53:12 Lit soul

John 3:16-17

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¹⁶“For God so ^(A)loved the world, that He ^(B)gave His ^(C)only Son, so that everyone who ^(D)believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁷For God ^(E)did not send the Son into the world ^(F)to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.