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42 For he remembered his sacred promise
    to Abraham his servant.

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72 to show mercy to our fathers(A)
    and to be mindful of his holy covenant(B)
73 and of the oath he swore to Abraham our father,(C)
    and to grant us that,

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16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his descendant.[a] It does not say, “And to descendants,” as referring to many, but as referring to one, “And to your descendant,” who is Christ.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:16 Descendant: literally, “and to his seed.” The Hebrew, as in Gn 12:7; 15:18; 22:17–18, is a collective singular, traditionally rendered as a plural, descendants, but taken by Paul in its literal number to refer to Christ as descendant of Abraham.