Genesis 17:8

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

And I will give this land to you and to all your descendants. I will give you the land you are traveling through—the land of Canaan. I will give you this land forever, and I will be your God.”

Cross References

Leviticus 26:12

I will walk with you and be your God. And you will be my people.

Psalm 105:11

He said, “I will give you the land of Canaan. It will be your very own.”

Exodus 6:7

You will be my people and I will be your God. I am the Lord your God, and you will know that I made you free from Egypt.

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your descendants.” Abram built an altar to honor the Lord who appeared to him there.

Deuteronomy 29:13

With this agreement he is making you his own special people, and he himself will become your God. He told you this. He promised this to your ancestors—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 26:18

And today the Lord has accepted you to be his own people. He has promised you this. The Lord also said that you must obey all his commands.

Deuteronomy 14:2

This is because you are different from other people. You belong to the Lord your God. From all the people in the world, the Lord chose you to be his own special people.

Genesis 13:15

All this land that you see I will give to you and your people who live after you. This will be your land forever.

Psalm 105:9

He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and the promise he made to Isaac.

Deuteronomy 4:37

“He loved your ancestors. That is why he chose you, their descendants. And that is why he brought you out of Egypt. He was with you and brought you out with his great power.

Genesis 28:4

and that God will bless you and your children the same way he blessed Abraham. And I pray that you will own the land where you live. This is the land God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 13:17

So go. Walk through your land. I now give it to you.”

2 Samuel 23:5

“God made my family strong and secure. He made an agreement with me forever. God made sure this agreement was good and secure in every way. So surely he will give me every victory. He will give me everything I want!

Deuteronomy 32:8

God Most High separated the people on earth and gave each nation its land. He set up borders for all people. He made as many nations as there are angels.

Numbers 25:13

This is the agreement: He and all of his family who live after him will always be priests, because he had strong feelings for his God. And he did what was needed to make the Israelites pure.”

Exodus 40:15

Anoint the sons in the same way you anointed their father. Then they can also serve me as priests. When you anoint them, they will become priests. That family will continue to be priests for all time to come.”

Genesis 48:4

He said to me, ‘I will make you a great family. I will give you many children and you will be a great people. Your family will own this land forever.’

Genesis 23:4

“I am only a foreigner staying in your country. I have no place to bury my wife. Please give me some land so that I can bury her.”

Hebrews 9:15

So Christ brings a new agreement from God to his people. He brings this agreement so that those who are chosen by God can have the blessings God promised, blessings that last forever. This can happen only because Christ died to free people from sins committed against the commands of the first agreement.

Psalm 103:17

But the Lord has always loved his followers, and he will continue to love them forever and ever! He will be good to all their descendants,

Leviticus 16:34

That law will continue forever. Once every year you will purify the Israelites from all their sins.” So they did everything that the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 21:6

If this happens, the master will bring the slave before God. The master will take the slave to a door or the wooden frame around the door and pierce the slave’s ear using a sharp tool to show that the slave will serve that master for all his life.

Acts 7:5

But God did not give Abraham any of this land, not even a foot of it. But God promised that in the future he would give Abraham this land for himself and for his children. This was before Abraham had any children.

Revelation 21:7

All those who win the victory will receive all this. And I will be their God, and they will be my children.

Genesis 26:24

The Lord spoke to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Don’t be afraid. I am with you, and I will bless you. I will make your family great. I will do this because of my servant Abraham.”

Genesis 37:1

Jacob stayed and lived in the land of Canaan. This is the same land where his father had lived.

Exodus 13:11

“The Lord will lead you into the land he promised to give you. The Canaanites live there now. But God promised your ancestors that he would give you this land. When that happens,

Exodus 29:45

I will live with the Israelites. I will be their God.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. These men served you, and you used your name to make a promise to them. You said, ‘I will make your people as many as the stars in the sky. I will give your people all this land as I promised. This land will be theirs forever.’”

Deuteronomy 9:5

You are going in to take their land, but not because you are good and live right. You are going in, and the Lord your God is forcing those people out because of the evil way they lived. And the Lord wants to keep the promise he made to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Jeremiah 25:5

Those prophets said, “Change your lives and stop doing evil! If you change, you can return to the land that the Lord gave you and your ancestors long ago. He gave you this land to live in forever.

Jeremiah 31:1

This is what the Lord said, “At that time I will be the God of all the tribes of Israel. And they will be my people.”

Genesis 35:27

Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba (Hebron). This is where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

Exodus 6:4

I made an agreement with them. I promised to give them the land of Canaan. They lived in that land, but it was not their own.

Leviticus 14:34

“I am giving the land of Canaan to your people. Your people will enter that land. At that time I might cause mildew to grow in someone’s house.

Numbers 10:29

Hobab was the son of Reuel, the Midianite. (Reuel was Moses’ father-in-law.) Moses said to Hobab, “We are traveling to the land that the Lord promised to give to us. Come with us and we will be good to you. The Lord has promised good things to the Israelites.”

Numbers 27:12

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go up on one of mountains in the desert east of the Jordan River. There you will see the land that I am giving to the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 32:49

“Go to the Abarim Mountains. Go up on Mount Nebo in the land of Moab across from the city of Jericho. Then you can look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites to live in.

Deuteronomy 34:4

The Lord said to Moses, “This is the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I said to them, ‘I will give this land to your descendants. I have let you see the land, but you cannot go there.’”

Joshua 1:2

“My servant Moses is dead. Now you and all these people must go across the Jordan River. You must go into the land I am giving to the Israelites.

1 Chronicles 16:18

He said, “I will give you the land of Canaan. It will be your very own.”

Ezekiel 11:20

Then they will obey my laws and my commands. They will do the things I tell them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.’”

Ezekiel 33:24

“Son of man, there are Israelites who live in the ruined cities in Israel. They are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, and God gave him all this land. Now, we are many people, so surely this land belongs to us! It is our land!’

Zechariah 8:8

I will bring them back here, and they will live in Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their good and faithful God.”