0 In Genesis 22, God blessed Abraham saying he would have a great number of descendants through whom all nations on earth would be blessed.

Thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness. Ezekiel 16:8

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In Genesis 22, God blessed Abraham saying he would have a great number of descendants through whom all nations on earth would be blessed.


He was willing to sacrifice his son as a burnt offering to God

What did Abraham do to receive so great a blessing?
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. Genesis 22:16
And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. Genesis 22:16

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