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What It Means To Bless Abram/Abraham With Land

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They are all referring to the same covenant, with chapter 17 being the climax of it, or the Full detail of it. God is promising to bless Abram/Abraham with land (Tullock, H. 2012). Both of these blessings are men²oned in all three passages (Tullock, H. 2012). Abraham has an end to hold up in this covenant as well; God will provide these things for him, and in turn, Abraham is to walk with God and be blameless (Tullock, H and McEntire, M. 2012).
In Haran, life took a new direction. Abraham was called by the Lord to leave the familiar faces of his kinsmen and the well-watered areas of northwestern Mesopotamia to go to a new land that the Lord would show him (Tullock , H. 2012). It was a promise that carried with it universal meaning. Abraham

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