Genesis 15:7

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Genesis 15:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

6 Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

7 The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

8 But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”

9 And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”

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Genesis 11:28

During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Genesis 11:29

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Genesis 11:30

But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

Genesis 11:31

And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 12:1

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

Nehemiah 9:7

You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

Acts 7:2

And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

Acts 7:3

and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’

Acts 7:4

So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.

Genesis 12:7

Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15

for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

Genesis 13:16

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

Genesis 13:17

Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”

Nehemiah 9:8

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

Psalms 105:11

“I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

Psalms 105:42

For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.

Psalms 105:44

He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,

Romans 4:13

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.