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

⁸ See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord ^[a]swore to your fathers—to ^(A)Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.’

¹² Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel; ^(A)they shall take possession of you, and you shall be their inheritance; no more shall you ^(B)bereave them of children.”