Genesis 15:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And lo, the word of Jehovah `is' unto him, saying, `This `one' doth not heir thee; but he who cometh out from thy bowels, he doth heir thee;'

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  • Gen 17:16 : 16 and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations -- kings of peoples are from her.'
  • Gal 4:28 : 28 And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,
  • Phlm 1:12 : 12 whom I did send again, and thou him (that is, my own bowels) receive,
  • Gen 21:12 : 12 and God saith unto Abraham, `Let it not be wrong in thine eyes because of the youth, and because of thy handmaid: all that Sarah saith unto thee -- hearken to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to thee.
  • 2 Sam 7:12 : 12 `When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom;
  • 2 Sam 16:11 : 11 And David saith unto Abishai, and unto all his servants, `Lo, my son who came out of my bowels is seeking my life, and also surely now the Benjamite; leave him alone, and let him revile, for Jehovah hath said `so' to him;
  • 2 Chr 32:21 : 21 and Jehovah sendeth a messenger, and cutteth off every mighty one of valour -- both leader and head -- in the camp of the king of Asshur, and he turneth back with shame of face to his land, and entereth the house of his god, and those coming out of his bowels have caused him to fall there by the sword.

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  • Gen 15:1-3
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    1 After these things hath the word of Jehovah been unto Abram in a vision, saying, `Fear not, Abram, I `am' a shield to thee, thy reward `is' exceeding great.'

    2 And Abram saith, `Lord Jehovah, what dost Thou give to me, and I am going childless? and an acquired son in my house is Demmesek Eliezer.'

    3 And Abram saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'

  • 5 and He bringeth him out without, and saith, `Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, `Thus is thy seed.'

  • Gen 17:4-6
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    4 `I -- lo, My covenant `is' with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

    5 and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;

    6 and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.

  • 19 and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

  • Gen 21:12-13
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    12 and God saith unto Abraham, `Let it not be wrong in thine eyes because of the youth, and because of thy handmaid: all that Sarah saith unto thee -- hearken to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to thee.

    13 As to the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he `is' thy seed.'

  • 18 of whom it was said -- `In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

  • Gen 15:7-8
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    7 And He saith unto him, `I `am' Jehovah who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to thee this land to possess it;'

    8 and he saith, `Lord Jehovah, whereby do I know that I possess it?'

  • Rom 9:7-9
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    7 nor because they are seed of Abraham `are' all children, but -- `in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

    8 that is, the children of the flesh -- these `are' not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

    9 for the word of promise `is' this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

  • 19 And as sand is thy seed, And the offspring of thy bowels as its gravel, Not cut off nor destroyed his name before Me.

  • 4 and He doth give to thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee, to cause thee to possess the land of thy sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.'

  • 13 and He saith to Abram, `knowing -- know that thy seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years,

  • 12 `When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom;

  • Gen 22:16-18
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    16 and saith, `By Myself I have sworn -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- that because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one --

    17 that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which `is' on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

    18 and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

  • 1 And Jehovah saith unto Abram, `Go for thyself, from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from the house of thy father, unto the land which I shew thee.

  • 11 And God saith to him, `I `am' God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from thee, and kings from thy loins go out;

  • 15 for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed -- to the age.

  • Acts 7:3-5
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    3 and He said to him, Go forth out of thy land, and out of thy kindred, and come to a land that I shall shew thee.

    4 `Then having come forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran, and from thence, after the death of his father, He did remove him to this land wherein ye now dwell,

    5 and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him -- he having no child.

  • 9 And God saith unto Abraham, `And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;

  • Gen 18:18-19
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    18 and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?

    19 for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'

  • 21 and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'

  • 4 and I have multiplied thy seed as stars of the heavens, and I have given to thy seed all these lands; and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth;

  • Gen 17:15-16
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    15 And God saith unto Abraham, `Sarai thy wife -- thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah `is' her name;

    16 and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations -- kings of peoples are from her.'

  • 7 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.

  • 36 and Sarah, my lord's wife, beareth a son to my lord, after she hath been aged, and he giveth to him all that he hath.

  • 10 and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Multiplying I multiply thy seed, and it is not numbered from multitude;'

  • 10 and she saith to Abraham, `Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid hath no possession with my son -- with Isaac.'

  • 23 but he who `is' of the maid-servant, according to flesh hath been, and he who `is' of the free-woman, through the promise;

  • 14 and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.

  • 30 but what saith the Writing? `Cast forth the maid-servant and her son, for the son of the maid-servant may not be heir with the son of the free-woman;'

  • 23 And Jehovah saith to her, `Two nations `are' in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the `one' people than the `other' people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.'