Those who regularly use the Revised Standard Version should take careful note of Genesis 13:15: “For all the land which you (Abraham) see I will give to you and your descendants [AV: ‘seed’] forever.”
On this point the RSV is not even internally consistent, since its translation of Galatians 3:16 rightly states that this promise was to Abraham and his “offspring,” singular, “referring to one... which is Christ.”
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Author: George Booker
Keywords: Seed, Descendants, Descendents, Promise to Abraham, Promise made to Abraham, Abrahamic promise
Bible reference(s): Genesis 12:7, Genesis 13:15-16, Genesis 15:5, Genesis 15:18, Genesis 17:7-10, Genesis 21:12, Genesis 22:17-18, Genesis 24:7, Genesis 26:3, Genesis 26:4, Genesis 28:4, Genesis 28:13-14, Genesis 35:12, Gal. 3:16
Source: “‘Seed’ in the RSV,” The Agora.
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