KJV King James Version
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
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Genesis 12:7
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
ASV American Standard Version
And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith, ‘To thy seed I give this land;’ and he buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, who hath appeared unto him.
Surrounding context — Genesis 12
4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was] then in the land.
7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] grievous in the land.
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וַיֵּרָ֤אH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeיְהוָה֙H3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)אַבְרָ֔םH87 · av.ramAbramוַיֹּ֕אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayלְזַ֨רְעֲךָ֔H2233 · ze.raseedאֶתֵּ֖ןH5414 · na.tanto give: giveאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָאָ֣רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetהַזֹּ֑אתH2063 · zotthisוַיִּ֤בֶןH1129 · ba.nahto buildשָׁם֙H8033 · shamthereמִזְבֵּ֔חַH4196 · miz.be.achaltarלַיהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDהַנִּרְאֶ֥הH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeאֵלָֽיו׃H413 · elto(wards)
Cross-references
Genesis 17:8And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.Genesis 17:1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.Genesis 13:15For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.Genesis 18:1And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;Galatians 3:16Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.Genesis 13:4Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.Psalm 105:9-12Which [covenant] he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;Genesis 13:18Then Abram removed [his] tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which [is] in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.Exodus 33:1And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, [and] go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:Genesis 26:25And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.Genesis 32:30And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.Numbers 32:11Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:Genesis 12:8And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.Genesis 15:18In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:Genesis 22:9And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.Romans 9:8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.Hebrews 11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of [them], and embraced [them], and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.Genesis 17:3And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
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