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Abraham

19 Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations,
    and no one has been found like him in glory.
20 He kept the law of the Most High,
    and entered into a covenant with him;
he certified the covenant in his flesh,
    and when he was tested he proved faithful.
21 Therefore the Lord[a] assured him with an oath
    that the nations would be blessed through his offspring;
that he would make him as numerous as the dust of the earth,
    and exalt his offspring like the stars,
and give them an inheritance from sea to sea
    and from the Euphrates[b] to the ends of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 44:21 Gk he
  2. Sirach 44:21 Syr: Heb Gk River

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