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:

And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

Thou {art} the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Lo, children {are} an heritage of the LORD: {and} the fruit of the womb {is his} reward.

Lo, children {are} an heritage of the LORD: {and} the fruit of the womb {is his} reward.

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

{Art} not thou our God, {who} didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? {who: Heb. thou}

And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah {that} bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?