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and said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you.’

“Therefore, he departed from the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And after his father died, God led him to the land where you now dwell. He did not give him any of this land as a heritage, not even as little as a foot, but he promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he was childless.

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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