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Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “This man will not be given what is yours. But he who will come from your own body will be given what is yours.” He took him outside and said, “Now look up into the heavens and add up the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then He said to him, “Your children and your children’s children will be as many as the stars.” Then Abram believed in the Lord, and that made him right with God.

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Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.(A) He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars(B)—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[a] be.”(C)

Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:5 Or seed