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Genesis 12:2 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. "
Genesis 12:2
Verse in Context
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1 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.
2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
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Genesis 12:1
"Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you."
Genesis 12:3
"I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”"
Genesis 12:4
"So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran."
Genesis 12:5
"Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan."
Genesis 12:6
"Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land."
Genesis 12:7
"The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him."
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