The Obedience of Abram
12:1 Now the Lord said 1 to Abram, 2
“Go out 3 from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household
to the land that I will show you. 4
12:2 Then I will make you 5 into a great nation, and I will bless you, 6
and I will make your name great, 7
so that you will exemplify divine blessing. 8
12:3 I will bless those who bless you, 9
but the one who treats you lightly 10 I must curse,
and all the families of the earth will bless one another 11 by your name.”
13:14 After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, 1 “Look 2 from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west. 13:15 I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants 3 forever. 13:16 And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted. 4 13:17 Get up and 5 walk throughout 6 the land, 7 for I will give it to you.”
15:18 That day the Lord made a covenant 1 with Abram: “To your descendants I give 2 this land, from the river of Egypt 3 to the great river, the Euphrates River – 15:19 the land 4 of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 15:20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 15:21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.” 5 17:6 I will make you 1 extremely 2 fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. 3 17:7 I will confirm 4 my covenant as a perpetual 5 covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 6 17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing 7 – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent 8 possession. I will be their God.” 