Genesis 13:15

New American Bible - revised edition

all the land that you see I will give to you and your descendants forever.

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 13:17

Get up and walk through the land, across its length and breadth, for I give it to you.

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,

Genesis 15:7

He then said to him: I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as a possession.

Genesis 18:18

now that he is to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth are to find blessing in him?

Genesis 24:7

The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, and who confirmed by oath the promise he made to me, ‘I will give this land to your descendants’—he will send his angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son there.

Genesis 28:13

And there was the Lord standing beside him and saying: I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying I will give to you and your descendants.

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and through them you will spread to the west and the east, to the north and the south. In you and your descendants all the families of the earth will find blessing.

Genesis 28:4

May God extend to you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham, so that you may gain possession of the land where you are residing, which he assigned to Abraham.”

Genesis 35:12

The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you; and to your descendants after you I will give the land.

Genesis 48:4

he said, ‘I will make you fertile and multiply you and make you into an assembly of peoples, and I will give this land to your descendants after you as a permanent possession.’

Genesis 50:24

Joseph said to his brothers: “I am about to die. God will surely take care of you and lead you up from this land to the land that he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

1 Chronicles 16:18

“To you will I give the land of Canaan, your own allotted heritage.”

2 Chronicles 20:7

Was it not you, our God, who dispossessed the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your friend?

Psalm 37:22

For those blessed by the Lord will inherit the earth, but those accursed will be cut off.

Psalm 37:29

The righteous will inherit the earth and dwell in it forever.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’”

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.

Isaiah 63:18

Why have the wicked invaded your holy place, why have our enemies trampled your sanctuary?

Numbers 34:2

Give the Israelites this order: When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the territory that shall fall to you as your heritage—the land of Canaan with its boundaries:

Matthew 5:5

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land.

Acts 7:5

Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but he did promise to give it to him and his descendants as a possession, even though he was childless.

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 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.