Thursday April 9
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The Land and the Word
In Genesis 17:8, God solemnly promised to Abraham, “I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan.” Before that, in Genesis 13:14-15, the Lord told him, “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are — northward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.”
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