Full Gen 12:1–3 with 22:18. The promise narrows: from humanity (Gen 3:15) to Shem (Gen 9:26–27) to Abraham's family (Gen 12:3) to Isaac (Gen 21:12, not Ishmael) to Jacob (Gen 25:23, not Esau) to Judah (Gen 49:10). Each covenant moment eliminates candidates rather than adding them. This elimination-as-revelation pattern is the page's central structural claim.
Genesis 12:3 — The Abrahamic Seed
In thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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John Calvin
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1. Now the Lord had said unto Abram. That an absurd division of these chapters may not trouble the readers, let them connect this sentence with the last two verses of the previous chapter. Moses had before said, that Terah and Abram had departed from their country to dwell in…
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