Reference: Seed, Seedtime
Hastings
1. Literal.
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God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
"'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening. read more. If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
"Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'
As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his seed forever."
Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God's Israel.
Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.