4 ‘And I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and I will give to your seed all these lands;+ and by means of your seed all nations of the earth will certainly bless themselves,’*+

5 And yet he did not give him any inheritable possession in it, no, not a footbreadth;+ but he promised to give it to him as a possession,+ and after him to his seed,*+ while as yet he had no child.+

18 although it had been said to him: “What will be called ‘your seed’ will be through Isaac.”+