Genesis 15:7 Cross References - NSB

⁷ Then God said to him: »I AM JEHOVAH, who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.«

²⁸ While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. ²⁹ Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah. ³⁰ Now Sarai was barren. She had no children. ³¹ Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

¹ Jehovah said to Abram: »Leave your country, your people, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

⁷ Jehovah appeared to Abram and said: »I will give this land to your offspring (seed).« He built an altar there to Jehovah, who had appeared to him.

¹⁵ »All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring (descendants) from generation to generation. ¹⁶ »I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust, your offspring could be counted. ¹⁷ »Go walk through the length and breadth of the land that I am giving to you.«

⁷ »You are Jehovah, the true God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham; ⁸ »You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours.

¹¹ He said: »I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance to you.«

⁴² He remembered his holy word to his servant Abraham.

⁴⁴ He gave them the lands of other nations. They inherited what others had worked for.

² He said: »Men, brothers and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran. ³ »He said to him: ‘Get out of your country and away from your relatives. Go to the land that I will show you. ⁴ »He went out of the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. After his father died, God moved him to this land, where you now dwell.

¹³ The promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world was not through the law but through righteousness by faith.