“And I shall give to you and your seed after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Kena‛an, as an everlasting possession. And I shall be their Elohim.”
Psalm 105:12 - The Scriptures 2009 When they were few in number, Few indeed, and sojourners in it, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 When they were but a few men in number; Yea, very few, and strangers in it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When they were but a few men in number, in fact, very few, and were temporary residents and strangers in it, American Standard Version (1901) When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it. Common English Bible When they were few in number— insignificant, just immigrants— Catholic Public Domain Version And they believed his words, and they sang his praises. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they believed his words: and they sang his praises. |
“And I shall give to you and your seed after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Kena‛an, as an everlasting possession. And I shall be their Elohim.”
I am a foreigner and a sojourner among you. Give me property for a burial-site among you, so that I bury my dead from my presence.
And Ya‛aqoḇ said to Shim‛on and Lĕwi, “You have troubled me by making me a stench among the inhabitants of the land, among the Kena‛anites and the Perizzites. And I am few in number, they shall gather themselves against me and shall strike me, and I shall be destroyed, my household and I.”
“And I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Kena‛an, the land of their sojournings, in which they have sojourned.
“Look to Aḇraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you. For he was alone when I called him, and I blessed him and increased him.
“And He gave him no inheritance in it, not a foot of it. But He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
“And you shall answer and say before יהוה your Elohim, ‘My father was a perishing Aramean, and he went down to Mitsrayim and sojourned there with few men. And there he became a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.
“יהוה did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more numerous than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples,
And so from one, and him as good as dead, were born as numerous as the stars of the heaven, as countless as the sand which is by the seashore.
By belief, he sojourned in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Yitsḥaq and Ya‛aqoḇ, the heirs with him of the same promise,