Deuteronomy 1:8

New American Bible - revised edition

See, I have given that land over to you. Go now and possess the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them. Appointment of Elders.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram and said: To your descendants I will give this land. So Abram built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

Genesis 15:16

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.

Genesis 15:18

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Great River, the Euphrates,

Nehemiah 9:15

Food from heaven you gave them in their hunger, water from a rock you sent them in their thirst. You told them to enter and occupy the land which you had sworn to give them.

Exodus 23:31

I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; all who dwell in this land I will hand over to you and you shall drive them out before you.

Exodus 33:1

The Lord spoke to Moses: Go! You and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt are to go up from here to the land about which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: I will give it to your descendants.

Jeremiah 32:22

And you gave them this land, as you had sworn to their ancestors to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Ezekiel 47:14

You shall apportion it equally because I swore to give it to your ancestors as a heritage; this land, then, is your heritage.

Numbers 14:23

not one shall see the land which I promised on oath to their ancestors. None of those who have spurned me shall see it.

Numbers 32:11

None of the men twenty years old or more who have come up from Egypt will see the land I promised under oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, because they have not followed me unreservedly—

Deuteronomy 1:11

May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times over, and bless you as he promised!

Deuteronomy 1:35

Not a single one of this evil generation shall look upon the good land I swore to give to your ancestors,

Deuteronomy 10:11

The Lord said to me, Go now and set out at the head of the people, that they may enter in and possess the land that I swore to their ancestors I would give them. The Lord’s Majesty and Compassion.

Deuteronomy 11:24

Every place where you set foot shall be yours: from the wilderness and the Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.

Deuteronomy 11:9

and that you may have long life on the land which the Lord swore to your ancestors he would give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 2:29

as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar have done, until I cross the Jordan into the land the Lord, our God, is about to give us.”

Deuteronomy 26:15

Look down, then, from heaven, your holy abode, and bless your people Israel and the fields you have given us, as you promised on oath to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.” The Covenant.

Deuteronomy 26:3

There you shall go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “Today I acknowledge to the Lord, my God, that I have indeed come into the land which the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.”

Deuteronomy 28:11

The Lord will generously increase the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil, upon the land which the Lord swore to your ancestors he would give you.

Deuteronomy 29:12

so that he may establish you today as his people and he may be your God, as he promised you and as he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 30:20

by loving the Lord, your God, obeying his voice, and holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land which the Lord swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.

Deuteronomy 31:7

Then Moses summoned Joshua and in the presence of all Israel said to him, “Be strong and steadfast, for you shall bring this people into the land which the Lord swore to their ancestors he would give them; it is you who will give them possession of it.

Deuteronomy 34:4

The Lord then said to him, This is the land about which I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, “I will give it to your descendants.” I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you shall not cross over.

Deuteronomy 4:1

Now therefore, Israel, hear the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 6:10

When the Lord, your God, brings you into the land which he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give you, a land with fine, large cities that you did not build,

Deuteronomy 7:12

As your reward for heeding these ordinances and keeping them carefully, the Lord, your God, will keep with you the covenant mercy he promised on oath to your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 7:13

He will love and bless and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your soil, your grain and wine and oil, the young of your herds and the offspring of your flocks, in the land which he swore to your ancestors he would give you.

Deuteronomy 7:8

It was because the Lord loved you and because of his fidelity to the oath he had sworn to your ancestors, that the Lord brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 8:1

Be careful to observe this whole commandment that I enjoin on you today, that you may live and increase, and may enter in and possess the land which the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 9:5

No, it is not because of your justice or the integrity of your heart that you are going in to take possession of their land; but it is because of their wickedness that the Lord, your God, is dispossessing these nations before you and in order to fulfill the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Hebrews 6:13

When God made the promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, “he swore by himself,”

Hebrews 6:14

and said, “I will indeed bless you and multiply” you.

Joshua 1:6

Be strong and steadfast, so that you may give this people possession of the land I swore to their ancestors that I would give them.

Judges 2:1

A messenger of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land which I promised on oath to your ancestors. I said, I will never break my covenant with you,