"For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."

"Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the message of this salvation has been sent.

But now return the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and [he] shall pray for you, and you shall live; but if you restore her not, know that you and all yours shall die.

And he said, Rightly was his name called Jacob, for behold, this second time has he supplanted me; he has both taken my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing! And Esau said to his father, Have you not a blessing left for me, father?

And Esau said to his father, Have you [only] one blessing, father? Bless me- me also, O my father! And Isaac being troubled, Esau cried aloud and wept.

And you shall live by your sword, and shall serve your brother; and there shall be [a time] when you shall break and loosen his yoke from off your neck.

But Israel, having stretched out his right hand, laid it on the head of Ephraim, and he was the younger; and his left hand on the head of Manasseh [guiding] his hands crosswise.

the angel who delivers me from all evils, bless these boys, and my name shall be called upon them, and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac; and let them be increased to a great multitude on the earth.

And Joseph said to his father, Not so, father; for this is the firstborn; lay your right hand upon his head.

And he blessed them in that day, saying, In you shall Israel be blessed, saying, God make you as Ephraim and Manasseh; and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

And Jacob called his sons, and said to them,

Reuben, you [are] my firstborn, you my strength, and the first of my children, hard to be endured, [hard and] self-willed.

Simeon and Levi, brothers, accomplished the injustice of their cutting off.

Cursed be their wrath, for it was willful, and their anger, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Judah is a lion's whelp: from the tender plant, my son, you have gone up. Having couched, you lie down like a lion, and as a whelp; who shall stir him up?

Binding his foal to the vine, and the foal of his donkey to the branch of it, he shall wash his robe in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grape.

Zebulun shall dwell on the coast, and he [shall be] by a haven of ships, and shall extend to Sidon.

And having seen the resting place that it was good, and the land that it was fertile, he subjected his shoulder to labor, and became a farmer.

And let Dan be a serpent in the way, besetting the path, biting the heel of the horse (and the rider shall fall backward),

Gad, a plundering troop shall plunder him; but he shall plunder him, [pursuing him] closely.

Naphtali is a spreading stem, bestowing beauty on its fruit.

Against whom men taking evil counsel reproached [him], and the archers pressed hard upon him.

and my God helped you, and He blessed you with the blessing of heaven from above, and the blessing of the earth possessing all things, because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb,

Benjamin, as a ravening wolf, shall eat still in the morning, and at evening he gives food.

And he said to them, I am added to my people; you shall bury me with my fathers in the cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac, and Rebecca his wife; there they buried Leah;

And Jacob ceased giving charges to his sons; and having lifted up his feet on the bed, he died, and was gathered to his people.

He has remembered His covenant forever, the word which He commanded for a thousand generations;

And He established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant;

when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it.

He allowed no man to wrong them; and He rebuked kings for their sakes;

and do not think to say among yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham out of these stones.

But even now, the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

And God said to Abraham, You also shall fully keep My covenant, you and your seed after you for their generations.

And this is the covenant which you shall fully keep between Me and you, and between your seed after you for their generations; every male of you shall be circumcised.

And God said to Abraham, Yea, behold, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to him and to his seed after him.

He confirmed it to Jacob for an ordinance, to Israel [as] an everlasting covenant,

And You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give to him and to his seed the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites; and You have confirmed Your words, for You [are] righteous.

to perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

who are Israelites, of whom are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the worship, and the promises;

of whom are the fathers and from whom Christ [came], according to the flesh, He who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

Now I say that Christ Jesus has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers,

And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

And I will bless those that bless you, and curse those that curse you, and in you shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

But Abraham shall become a great and populous nation, and in him shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.

And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven; and I will give to your seed all this land, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in your seed.

And your seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in you and in your seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

For the promise that he should be heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through [the] law, but through [the] righteousness of faith.

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, [saying] that, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."

Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises spoken. He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," who is Christ.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before Him.

Bring to the Lord, you families of the Gentiles, bring to the Lord glory and honor.

And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; because You were slain, and You redeemed us to God by Your blood, out of every tribe and language and people and nation;

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, out of every nation, and [from] tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, having been clothed in long white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Then I saw an angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people,