Hebrews 11:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If they had been thinking with [homesick] remembrance of that country from which they were emigrants, they would have found constant opportunity to return to it.

American Standard Version (1901)

And if indeed they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

Common English Bible

If they had been thinking about the country that they had left, they would have had the opportunity to return to it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And if, indeed, they had been mindful of the very place from which they departed, they certainly would have returned in time.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And truly if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they had doubtless time to return.

Hebrews 11:15 Cross References

Genesis 11:31

Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 24:4

but will go to my country and to my kindred and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 31:18

and he drove away all his livestock, all the property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

Hebrews 11:14

for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.