After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using his name.

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

(Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.

Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt.

Then the man searched. He began with the oldest and finished with the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack!

God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”

So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”

I will strike them with the pestilence, and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

“‘And for a western border you will have the Great Sea. This will be your western border.

“‘And this will be your northern border: From the Great Sea you will draw a line to Mount Hor;

(The Emites used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites in advance of the Ammonites, so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

And he brought signs and great, devastating wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on his whole family before our very eyes.

You must not tremble in their presence, for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God.

The Lord your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.

They are your people, your valued property, whom you brought out with great strength and power.

I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the Lord!

then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.