to make a great nation of Abraham. This means the Jews as a whole. The Jews then are a nation because of their origin from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Secondly, to this nation God has promised a land, once called Canaan, now called Palestine. It is totally irrelevant whether the Jews are in the Land or outside the Land or whether anyone else may control it by conquest or any other means, for the Land belongs to the Jews by divine right. Thirdly, those that bless this nation will be blessed and those
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