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Hebrews 11:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents as did Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise.

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From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to the Lord there, and he called on the name of the Lord.


So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron,  where he built an altar to the Lord.


Because God wanted to show his unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, he guaranteed it with an oath,


‘Where is your wife Sarah? ’ they asked him. ‘There, in the tent,’ he answered.


He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,


Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre  in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron  ), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.


May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham  so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.’


When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman,  but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.


‘I am a foreigner residing among you.  Give me burial property among you so that I can bury my dead.’  ,


So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, ‘Quick! Knead three measures  of fine flour and make bread.’


And to you and your future offspring  , I will give the land where you are residing #– #all the land of Canaan #– #as a permanent possession,  and I will be their God.’


For their possessions were too many for them to live together,  and because of their herds, the land where they stayed could not support them.


Jacob said to Pharaoh, ‘My pilgrimage  has lasted for 130 years. My years have been few and hard,  and they have not reached the years of my ancestors during their pilgrimages.’


You must not build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Rather, you must live in tents your whole life, so that you may live a long time on the soil where you stay as a resident foreigner.”


And Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for many days.


When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his relatives also pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead.





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