For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.

Men and brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the Word of this salvation is sent.

Now therefore, restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall die the death, you and all who are yours.

And Esau said, Is he not rightly called by the name Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now behold, he has taken away my blessing! And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?

And Esau said to his father, Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me; me also, O my father! And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass, when you become restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck.

And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, crossing his hands; for Manasseh was the firstborn.

the Angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; let my name be called upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.

And he blessed them that day, saying, In you Israel shall bless, saying, May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh! And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

And Jacob summoned his sons and said, Gather around, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days:

Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power.

Simeon and Levi are brothers; implements of violence are their weapons.

Cursed is their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bows down, he crouches like a lion; and as a lioness, who shall rouse him?

Binding His donkey to the vine, and His donkey's colt to the choice vine, He has washed His garments in wine, and His clothes in the blood of grapes;

Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore; he shall become a haven for ships, bordering Sidon.

He saw that the resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant. He bowed his shoulder to bear a burden, and became a servant to forced labor.

Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider shall fall backward.

Gad, a troop shall attack him, but he shall attack their heel.

Naphtali is a deer let loose; he utters beautiful words.

The archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and carried animosity against him.

by the Mighty God of your father who will help you, and by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall distribute the spoils.

And he charged them and said to them: I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah.

And when Jacob had finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed and expired, and was gathered to his people.

He remembers His covenant forever, the Word which He commanded, to a thousand generations,

and confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel as a perpetual covenant,

when they were but a few men in number, yea very few, and sojourned in it.

He permitted no one to do them wrong; yea, He reproved kings for their sakes,

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

And now already the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore any tree which does not bear good fruit is cut off and thrown into the fire.

And God said to Abraham: As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised;

And God said: Truly, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I have established My covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, with his seed after him.

and established it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for a perpetual covenant,

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

to perform mercy with our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the service of God, and the promises;

of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, is Christ, being God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

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

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

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who despises you; and in you all families of the earth shall be blessed.

since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

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

And I will make your seed multiply as the stars of the heavens; I will give to your seed all these lands; and in your Seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

For the promise that he would be the 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 before to Abraham, saying, In you all the nations shall be blessed.

Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. 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 Jehovah; and all the families of the nations shall bow down before You.

Ascribe unto Jehovah, O families of the peoples, ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength.

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

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one was able to number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

And I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the eternal gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth; to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people;