Sirach 44:19-21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Abraham
19 Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations,
and no one has been found like him in glory.(A)
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.(B)
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.(C)
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