"Now the LORD said to Abram, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.'" --Genesis...

"And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, 'Jacob, Jacob.' And he said, 'Here I am'" (Genesis 46:2). Jacob's story is a...

"'Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have...

"And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived"...

"So Abraham called the name of that place, 'The LORD will provide'; as it is said to this day, 'On the mount of the LORD it shall be...

"Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram" (Genesis 16:16). The story of Abraham is one of great patience, of...

"Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, 'To your offspring I will give this land.' So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had...

"In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, ‘So shall your offspring be’”...