⁷ The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring^[a](A) I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

¹⁸ On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring,^(A) from the Brook of Egypt^(B) to the great river, the Euphrates River:

⁸ And to you and your future offspring^[a](A) I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as a permanent possession,^(B) and I will be their God.”

⁷ The Lord, the God of heaven,^(A) who took me from my father’s house and from my native land,^(B) who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring’^[a](C)—he will send his angel before you,^(D) and you can take a wife for my son from there.

⁴ I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed^[a] by your offspring,^(A)

¹³ The Lord was standing there beside him,^[a] saying, “I am the Lord,^(A) the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land on which you are lying.

¹² I will give to you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac.^(A) And I will give the land to your future descendants.”

⁴ The Lord then said to him, “This is the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’^(A) I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”

⁷ Are you not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel^(A) and who gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham^(B) your friend?

⁵ He didn’t give him an inheritance in it—not even a foot of ground—but he promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him,^(A) even though he was childless.