“The LORD, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.