Reference: Seed, Seedtime
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1. Literal.
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Then God said, "Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds." And it was so.
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."
"Understand that I am confirming My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
But the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring." So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
for I will give you and your offspring forever all the land that you see.
And to you and your offspring after you I will give the land where you are residing-all the land of Canaan-as an eternal possession, and I will be their God."
"When a man has an emission of semen, he is to bathe himself completely with water, and he will remain unclean until evening. Any clothing or leather on which there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it will remain unclean until evening. read more. If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.
"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies , leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.
just as He spoke to our ancestors, to Abraham and his descendants forever.
Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David's offspring and from the town of Bethlehem, where David once lived?"
On the contrary, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart-by the Spirit, not the letter. His praise is not from men but from God.
I ask, then, has God rejected His people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
so understand that those who have faith are Abraham's sons.
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say "and to seeds," as though referring to many, but and to your seed, referring to one, who is Christ.
There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
May peace be on all those who follow this standard, and mercy also be on the Israel of God!
Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because His seed remains in him; he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.