Righteousness, right standing — reckoned to Abram on account of his trust (15:6), granted rather than earned. ⭐ Deuteronomy 6:25 (already on these pages) closes the Shema chapter on the same noun coming the other way: ‘it will be RIGHTEOUSNESS for us if we keep to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God.’ One word, two routes — reckoned for believing at Genesis 15:6, promised for doing at Deuteronomy 6:25 — and the argument between them runs through the New Testament and out the far side into the Reformation. Both verses are printed here plainly; the tension is in the Hebrew Bible before anyone in the first century picks it up. ⚠ The shelf is unusually far apart on the Deuteronomy verse: the NVI turns the noun into a state of the person («seremos justos»), the TLB drops the idea entirely, and the Douay-Rheims reads ‘he will be MERCIFUL to us’ — mercy for righteousness, which is the Vulgate rather than a judgement about the Hebrew. ⭐ Deuteronomy 9:4-6 (already on these pages) supplies a THIRD route, and it is a denial: three times in three verses Israel is told the land is not being given be-tzidqatkha, for your righteousness — first as a thought forbidden, then as a flat fact, then as something they must actively know. Reckoned for believing at Genesis 15:6, promised for doing at Deuteronomy 6:25, refused as a ground of anything at Deuteronomy 9:4. The Hebrew Bible has the noun on all three sides of its own argument before the New Testament arrives to take it up. ⭐ Deuteronomy 24:13 (now on these pages) promises the same noun for one act: return a poor man's pledged cloak when the sun goes in, and it will be righteousness for you before Jehovah your God. The noun with the verb will be stands in two verses of the Hebrew Bible — 6:25 for the whole law kept, 24:13 for one garment handed back. → first discussed at Gen 15:6