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Promised Land

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | Copyright

Promised Land. The land promised to the Jewish patriarch, Abraham. The phrase does not appear in scripture, though ‘land of promise’ refers in Hebrews 11. 9 to the faith of Abraham.

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