and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.
And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,
So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.
The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever. I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted. Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.”
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