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Genesis 12:1 is a familiar text. It marks the beginning of God's call to and relationship with Abraham:

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee....

This verse contains the first of many promises which God made to Abraham. Would you like to know where the rest of the promises are? The Dake Annotated Reference Bible identifies them for you, on page 10 of the Old Testament:

Forty-eight Promises to Abraham (Gen. 12:1)

  1. I will show you the land (Gen. 12:1)
  2. Make of you a great nation (Gen. 12:2)
  3. Bless you (Gen. 12:2; 22:17)
  4. Make your name great (Gen. 12:2)
  5. You will be a blessing (Gen. 12:2)
  6. I will bless them that bless you (Gen. 12:3)
  7. Curse them that curse you (Gen. 12:3)
  8. In you all nations will be blessed (Gen. 12:3; 22:18)
  9. I will give this land to your seed forever (Gen. 12:7; 13:14-17; 15:18-21; 17:8)
  10. I will make your seed as the dust in number (Gen. 13:16)
  11. I am your shield (Gen. 15:1)
  12. I am your great reward (Gen. 15:1)
  13. Your own son shall be your heir (Gen. 15:2-4)
  14. Your seed shall be as the stars in number (Gen. 15:5; 22:17)
  15. Your seed shall be strangers and oppressed 400 years (Gen. 15:13)
  16. I will punish their oppressors (Gen. 15:14)
  17. I will bring your seed out of bondage (Gen. 15:14-16; fulfilled, Ex. 12)
  18. I will bless your seed with great material substance (Gen. 15:14)
  19. You will die in peace (Gen. 15:15)
  20. You will be buried in a good old age (Gen. 15:15)
  21. I will make an eternal covenant with you (Gen. 17:4, 7)
  22. I will multiply you exceedingly (Gen. 17:2; 22:17)
  23. You will be the father of many nations (Gen. 17:5-6)
  24. I will make you exceedingly fruitful (Gen. 17:6)
  25. Kings shall come from you (Gen. 17:6)
  26. I will make a covenant with your seed eternally (Gen. 17:7)
  27. I will be a God to you and your seed (Gen. 17:7-8)
  28. I will bless your wife (Gen. 17:16)
  29. I will give you a son of her (Gen. 17:16-19)
  30. She shall be a mother of many nations (Gen. 17:16)
  31. Kings shall come of her (Gen. 17:16)
  32. I will establish My everlasting covenant with Isaac and his seed (Gen. 17:19-21)
  33. I will bless Ishmael (Gen. 17:20)
  34. I will make him fruitful (Gen. 17:20)
  35. I will multiply him abundantly (Gen. 17:20)
  36. Twelve princes shall he beget (Gen. 17:20)
  37. I will make him a great nation (Gen. 17:20)
  38. Sarah shall have a son next year (Gen. 17:21; 18:10, 14)
  39. I will not destroy Sodom if I find fifty righteous (Gen. 18:26)
  40. I will not destroy the city if I find forty-five righteous (Gen. 18:28)
  41. I will not destroy it if I find forty righteous (Gen. 18:29)
  42. I will not destroy it if I find thirty righteous (Gen. 18:30)
  43. I will not destroy it if I find twenty righteous (Gen. 18:31)
  44. I will not destroy it if I find ten righteous (Gen. 18:32)
  45. In Isaac shall your seed be called (Gen. 21:12)
  46. I will multiply your seed as the sand in number (Gen. 22:17)
  47. Your seed shall be the victor over their enemies (Gen. 22:17)
  48. In your seed shall all nations be blessed (Gen. 22:18)

     

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