◄ Genesis 15:7 ►
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Good News Translation
Then the LORD said to him, "I am the LORD, who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own."

New Revised Standard Version
Then he said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD said to Abram, "I brought you here from Ur in Chaldea, and I gave you this land."

New American Bible
He then said to him: I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as a possession.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.

brought.

Genesis 11:28-31 And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees. . . .

Genesis 12:1 And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Nehemiah 9:7 Thou O Lord God, art he who chosest Abram, and broughtest him forth out of the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraham.

Acts 7:2-4 Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan. . . .

to give.

Genesis 12:7 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15-17 All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever. . . .

Nehemiah 9:8 And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just.

Psalm 105:11,42,44 Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance. . . .

Romans 4:13 For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world: but through the justice of faith.

Context
God's Covenant with Abram
…6Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice. 7And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.
Cross References
Acts 7:2
Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan.

Acts 7:4
Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charan. And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell.

Genesis 11:31
And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.

Genesis 12:1
And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Genesis 13:15
All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

Genesis 13:17
Arise and walk through the land in the length, and the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.

Genesis 28:4
And give the blessings of Abraham to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he promised to thy grandfather.

Genesis 50:24
After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 9:5
For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Genesis 15:6
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