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God said to Abraham, ‘Leave your country and your relatives, and go to the land I will show you.’[a] So Abraham left the country of Chaldea and went to live in Haran. After Abraham’s father died, God sent him to this place where you now live. God did not give Abraham any of this land, not even a foot of it. But God promised that he would give this land to him and his descendants, even before Abraham had a child.

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  1. 7:3 ‘Leave . . . you.’ Quotation from Genesis 12:1.

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