Genesis 17:7
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7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.(A)
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Genesis 21:2
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2 Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him.(A)
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Genesis 25:25
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25 The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle, so they named him Esau.(A)
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Genesis 25:26
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26 Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau’s heel, so he was named Jacob.[a] Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.(A)
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- 25.26 That is, he takes by the heel or he supplants
Romans 9:6-8
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6 It is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those descended from Israel are Israelites,(A) 7 and not all of Abraham’s children are his descendants, but “it is through Isaac that descendants shall be named for you.”(B) 8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
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