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Genesis 15:18

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

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ASV

In that day Jehovah 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:

KJV

In 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:

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20 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
בַּיּ֣וֹםbai.Yomon the dayH3117 →
הַה֗וּאha.Hu'<the> thatH1931 →
כָּרַ֧תka.Rathe madeH3772 →
יְהוָ֛הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
אֶת־'et-withH854 →
אַבְרָ֖ם'av.RamAbramH87 →
בְּרִ֣יתbe.Rita covenantH1285 →
לֵאמֹ֑רle.Mor<to> sayingH559 →
לְזַרְעֲךָ֗le.zar.'a.Khato offspring yourH2233 →
נָתַ֙תִּי֙na.Ta.tiI giveH5414 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הָאָ֣רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
הַזֹּ֔אתha.Zot<the> thisH2063 →
מִנְּהַ֣רmi.ne.Harfrom [the] river ofH5104 →
מִצְרַ֔יִםmitz.Ra.yimEgyptH4714 →
עַד־'ad-toH5704 →
הַנָּהָ֥רha.na.Harthe riverH5104 →
הַגָּדֹ֖לha.ga.Dol<the> greatH1419 →
נְהַר־ne.har-[the] river ofH5104 →
פְּרָֽת׃pe.RatEuphratesH6578 →

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Joshua 1:3–4I have given you every place where the sole of your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses.Malachi 3:6“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.Genesis 12:7Then 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.Genesis 24:7The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.Genesis 13:15for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.Deuteronomy 11:24Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.Exodus 23:31And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.Deuteronomy 1:8See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”Exodus 23:27–31I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.Numbers 34:2–3“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:Isaiah 27:12In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.Numbers 34:5where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.Nehemiah 9:8You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.Genesis 26:3Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.Exodus 23:20Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.Deuteronomy 34:4And the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”Hebrews 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,

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The Creation of Light — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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