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and said to him, ‘Go forth from your land and [from] your kinsfolk to the land that I will show you.’(A) So he went forth from the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, he made him migrate to this land where you now dwell.(B) Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but he did promise to give it to him and his descendants as a possession, even though he was childless.(C)

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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