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Genesis 26:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed  by your offspring,

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You are the sons  of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.   ,


Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and proclaimed the gospel in advance to Abraham,  saying, All the nations   will be blessed through you.   ,


He took him outside and said, ‘Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘Your offspring will be that numerous.’


Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel #– #you swore to them by yourself  and declared, “I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit it for ever.” ’


I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth,  so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.


Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say ‘and to seeds’, as though referring to many, but referring to one, and to your seed,   , who is Christ.


For by this our ancestors were approved.


Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.


On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘I give this land to your offspring,  from the Brook of Egypt  to the great river, the River Euphrates:


and the Lord appeared to him that night and said, ‘I am the God of your father Abraham.  Do not be afraid, for I am with you.  I will bless you and multiply your offspring because of my servant Abraham.’


May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you  so that you become an assembly of peoples.


Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth,  and you will spread out towards the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.


I will give to you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac.  And I will give the land to your future descendants.’


Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property in it and became fruitful and very numerous.


I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as foreigners.


You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the Lord your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to fulfil the promise he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


Nothing set apart for destruction is to remain in your hand, so that the Lord will turn from his burning anger and grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as he swore to your ancestors.


David didn’t count the men aged twenty or under, for the Lord had said he would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.





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