Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land He promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

"Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.

The people believed, and when they heard that the LORD had paid attention to them and that He had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.

You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers' sin, to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me,

She and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab, because she had heard in Moab that the LORD had paid attention to His people's [need] by providing them food.

The LORD paid attention to Hannah's [need], and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.

Remember me, LORD, when You show favor to Your people. Come to me with Your salvation

Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and provided redemption for His people.

They will crush you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation."

in God's sight. As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.

He considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb, without weakening in the faith.

But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

The LORD said, "I will certainly come back to you in about a year's time, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.

Is anything impossible for the LORD? At the appointed time I will come back to you, and in about a year she will have a son."

The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

But the one by the slave was born according to the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,