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17 I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies,(A) 18 and in your descendants all the nations of the earth will find blessing, because you obeyed my command.”(B)

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17 I will surely bless you(A) and make your descendants(B) as numerous as the stars in the sky(C) and as the sand on the seashore.(D) Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,(E) 18 and through your offspring[a] all nations on earth will be blessed,[b](F) because you have obeyed me.”(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 22:18 Or seed
  2. Genesis 22:18 Or and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings (see 48:20)

20 By faith regarding things still to come Isaac[a] blessed Jacob and Esau.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:20–22 Each of these three patriarchs, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, had faith in the future fulfillment of God’s promise and renewed this faith when near death.

20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.(A)

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