Genesis 15:7
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New International Version (©2011)
He also said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then the LORD told him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession."

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He also said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."

International Standard Version (©2012)
The LORD spoke to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land as an inheritance."

NET Bible (©2006)
The LORD said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the LORD said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land so that you will take possession of it."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.

American King James Version
And he said to him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.

American Standard Version
And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to gibe thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.

Darby Bible Translation
And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it.

English Revised Version
And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

World English Bible
He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."

Young's Literal Translation
And He saith unto him, 'I am Jehovah who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to thee this land to possess it;'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:7-11 Assurance was given to Abram of the land of Canaan for an inheritance. God never promises more than he is able to perform, as men often do. Abram did as God commanded him. He divided the beasts in the midst, according to the ceremony used in confirming covenants, Jer 34:18,19. Having prepared according to God's appointment, he set himself to wait for the sign God might give him. A watch must be kept upon our spiritual sacrifices. When vain thoughts, like these fowls, come down upon our sacrifices, we must drive them away, and seek to attend on God without distraction.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - And he (Jehovah, or the Word of the Lord) said unto him (after the act of faith on the part of the patriarch, and the act of imputation or justification on the part of God, and in explication of the exact nature of that relationship which had been constituted between them by the spiritual transaction so described), I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees (vide Genesis 11:28), to give thee this land to inherit (or, to possess) it.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he said unto him,.... After he had expressed his faith in him, and in his word, and the blessedness of a justifying righteousness came openly upon him, and he was declared a justified person:

I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees; not only called him, but brought him out of it; not out of a furnace there, as the Jews fable; but out of a place so called, an idolatrous one, where fire was worshipped, and from whence it might have its name; God had brought him out of this wicked place, and separated him from the men of it, and directed him to the land of Canaan for the following end and purpose:

to give thee this land to inherit it; to be an inheritance to his posterity for ages to come; he gave him the promise of it, and in some sense the possession of it, he being now in it; and he mentions his having brought him out of Chaldea into it, to confirm his faith in the promise of it; that that God who had called him, and brought him from thence, and had protected him, and given him victory over his enemies, was able to make good, and would make good the promise and grant of this land for an inheritance to him, that is, to his posterity.

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God's Covenant with Abram
…5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said to him, So shall your seed be. 6And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. 7And he said to him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.

Acts 7:2 To this he replied: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.
Acts 7:4 "So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.
Genesis 11:31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.
Genesis 12:1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you.
Genesis 13:15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.
Genesis 13:17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you."
Genesis 28:4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham."
Genesis 50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."
Deuteronomy 9:5 It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the LORD your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.