Genesis 26: 3

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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
GENESIS

CHAPTER 26

3 ^aSojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will ^bbless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these ^ccountries, and I will perform the ^doath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

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3a	Ps. 39: 12. 12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a ^astranger with thee, and a ^bsojourner, as all my fathers were. Acts 7: 6 (2-8). 6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should ^asojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into ^bbondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years. Heb. 11: 9. 9 By faith he ^asojourned in the ^bland of ^cpromise, as in a strange country, dwelling in ^dtabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 1 Ne. 17: 4 (3-4). 4 And we did sojourn for the space of many years, yea, *even eight years in the wilderness. Abr. 2: 21. 21 And I, Abraham, journeyed, going on still towards the south; and there was a continuation of a famine in the land; and I, Abraham, concluded to go down into Egypt, to sojourn there, for the famine became very grievous.
b	Ether 1: 43 (42-43). 43 And there will I bless thee and thy seed, and raise up unto me of thy seed, and of the seed of thy brother, and they who shall go with thee, a great nation. And ^athere shall be none ^bgreater than the nation which I will raise up unto me of thy seed, upon all the face of the earth. And thus I will do unto thee because this long time ye have cried unto me.
c	TG Israel, Land of. TG Promised Lands.
d	TG Covenants.