The Call of Abram

12 The Lord said to Abram:

Go from your land,
your relatives,
and your father’s house
to the land that I will show you.(A)
I will make you into a great nation,(B)
I will bless you,(C)
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.(D)
I will bless those who bless you,
I will curse anyone who treats you with contempt,(E)
and all the peoples on earth
will be blessed[a] through you.[b](F)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:3 Or will find blessing
  2. 12:3 Or will bless themselves by you

12 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

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18 Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.(A)

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18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

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18 And all the nations of the earth will be blessed[a] by your offspring(A) because you have obeyed my command.”

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Footnotes

  1. 22:18 Or will consider themselves blessed, or will find blessing

18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

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31 in order that, as it is written:(A) Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.[a](B)

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  1. 1:31 Jr 9:24

31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

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