Holy Scripture
Genesis 17:6
A church father on this verse
“Hence, the Stoic philosophers drew their doctrine as if from a source, saying that all things belong to the wise. For the East and the West, the North and the South are parts of the universe. The whole world is enclosed in them. When God promised Abraham that He would give him these things, what else does He declare b…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6And I will increase thee very exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
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4And I, behold! my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.
5And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham, for I have made thee a father of many nations.
— Genesis 17:6 —
7And I will establish my covenant between thee and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee.
8And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou sojournest, even all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God.