and said to him: Leave your country and relatives, and come to the land that I will show you.[a](A)

“Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land in which you are now living.(B) 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,(C) even though he was childless.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:3 Gn 12:1

‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’[a](A)

“So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.(B) He gave him no inheritance here,(C) not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land,(D) even though at that time Abraham had no child.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:3 Gen. 12:1