And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and behold, he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him.

remembering Abraham and Isaac and Jacob Your servants, to whom You have sworn by Yourself, and have spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which You spoke of to give to them, so that they shall possess it forever.

God is not as a man that He should waver, nor as a son of man that He should be threatened; shall He say and not perform? Shall He speak and not keep [His word]?

And Israel shall be divided in two: and [God] will not turn nor repent, for He is not as a man to repent.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall by no means pass away.

If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time [itself],

Thus God, wanting to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His counsel, guaranteed it by an oath,

And the Lord stood upon it, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your seed.

And behold, I am with you, to preserve you continually wherever you shall go; and I will bring you back to this land; for I will not desert you, until I have done all that I have said to you.

And He said to him, I am the God of your fathers; fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.

And I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will bring you up at the end; and Joseph shall put his hands on your eyes.