The covenant made by God with Abraham, that Messiah should spring from his seed. This promise was given to Abraham, because he left his country and father’s house to live in a strange land, as God told him.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.