“And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.””
Genesis 17:8
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- Abram Becomes Abraham: A New Name at Ninety-Nine (Genesis 17)
- El Shaddai and the Letter God Hid in a New Name (Genesis 17)
Connection with the death and burial of Sarah
More than sixty years after God first promised Abraham this land (Genesis 12:7), Abraham still owned none of it. When Sarah died, he had to ask the neighbours for somewhere to bury his wife (Genesis 23).
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