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and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.

Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which *ye* now dwell.

And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.

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‘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