Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.
Parallel translations
- WEB Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
- KJV And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
- NKJV And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.
- NASB Now Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac;
- NLT Abraham gave everything he owned to his son Isaac.
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Abraham gives all that he had to Isaac.
Overview
Isaac receives the full inheritance, marking him as the heir of both the estate and the covenant promise. This deliberate act distinguishes the son of promise from Abraham's other children. It safeguards the line through which God's redemptive purposes, culminating in Christ, would advance.
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Cross-references · 15
- Gen 24:36My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.
- Heb 1:2But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.
- Gal 3:29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
- Ps 68:18You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
- Rom 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- John 3:35The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.
- Rom 8:17And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.
- Matt 28:18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
- 1 Cor 3:21–23Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,
- Matt 11:27All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
- Gen 21:10–12and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
- Col 1:19For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,
- Gal 4:28Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.
- Rom 9:7–9Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
- John 17:2For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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