As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.

And I have blessed her and have given you a son by her; yea, I have blessed her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.

And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly abundantly. He shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

Then Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years.

And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,

And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac dwelt at Beer Lahai Roi.

And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

Hadar, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

And these were the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he expired and died, and was gathered to his people.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begot Isaac.

And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren; and Jehovah was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And Jehovah said to her: Two nations are in your womb, two peoples shall be separated from your body; one people shall be stronger than the other, and the older shall serve the younger.

And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all over; and they called his name Esau.

So the boys grew: And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

Now Jacob boiled stew; and Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.

And Jacob said, Sell me your birthright today.

And Jacob said, Swear to me this day. So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become an assembly of peoples;

Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude; innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through His Spirit who dwells in you.

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.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives life, even so the Son gives life to whom He wills.

Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh does not profit; not a thing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

And so it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a life- giving Spirit.

And you being dead in trespasses and sins,

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;

even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

I charge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, There they shall be called, Sons of the living God.

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not keep back; bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the ends of the earth;

And who shall proclaim as I do, and shall declare it and set it in order for Me; since I founded the ancient people? And the things that are coming, and shall come; let them declare it to them.

Behold, these shall come from afar; and, lo, those from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into praise, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Known to God from eternity are all His works.

and the low-born of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,

By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who did not have mercy but now have mercy.

But, beloved, do not be unaware of this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.