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²³Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.

¹Then the Lord said to Abram: “Depart from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, and come into the land that I will show you.

²⁸And God blessed them, and he said, “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

⁷And I led you into the land of Carmel, so that you would eat from its fruit and from its excellence. And having entered it, you defiled my land, and you turned my inheritance into an abomination.

²¹And your people will all be just. They will inherit the earth in perpetuity, the seedling of my planting, the work of my hand, so as to glorify me.

¹¹But the meek shall inherit the earth, and they will delight in the multitude of peace.

¹⁴And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was divided from him: “Lift up your eyes, and gaze out from the place where you are now, to the north and to the meridian, to the east and to the west. ¹⁵All the land that you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring even forever. ¹⁶And I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If any man is able to number the dust of the earth, he will be able to number your offspring as well. ¹⁷Arise and walk through the land in its length, and breadth. For I will give it to you.”

⁸And knowing their sorrow, I have descended in order to free them from the hands of the Egyptians, and to lead them from that land into a good and spacious land, into a land which flows with milk and honey, to the places of the Canaanite, and Hittite, and Amorite, and Perizzite, and Hivite, and Jebusite.

⁸‘Lo,’ he said, ‘I have delivered it to you. Enter and possess that which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them, and to their offspring after them.’

⁵Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be consoled.

¹¹Rather, it has mountainous regions and plains, which lay waiting for rain from heaven. ¹²And the Lord your God always visits it, and his eyes are upon it, from the beginning of the year, all the way to its end.

³⁴and when the deserted land will have been cultivated, which previously was desolate to the eyes of all who passed by,

¹³For so will the Lord give goodness, and our earth will give her fruit.

¹I saw the new heaven and the new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.

¹⁴and if my people, over whom my name has been invoked, being converted, will have petitioned me and sought my face, and will have done penance for their wicked ways, then I will heed them from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and I will heal their land.

³I will deliver to you every place that the step of your foot will tread upon, just as I said to Moses. ⁴From the desert and from Lebanon, even to the great river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, as far as the great sea opposite the setting of the sun, shall be your border.

¹⁸On that day, God formed a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt, even to the great river Euphrates: