Genesis 17:8

New American Bible - revised edition

I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are now residing as aliens, the whole land of Canaan, as a permanent possession; and I will be their God.

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 13:15

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

Genesis 13:17

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

Genesis 23:4

“Although I am a resident alien among you, sell me from your holdings a burial place, that I may bury my deceased wife.”

Genesis 26:24

The same night the Lord appeared to him and said: I am the God of Abraham, your father. Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of Abraham, my servant.

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 35:27

Jacob went home to his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriath-arba (now Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided.

Genesis 36:7

Their possessions had become too great for them to dwell together, and the land in which they were residing could not support them because of their livestock.

Genesis 37:1

Jacob settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan.

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.’

2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house firm before God? He has made an eternal covenant with me, set forth in detail and secured. Will he not bring to fruition all my salvation and my every desire?

1 Chronicles 16:18

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

Psalm 103:17

But the Lord’s mercy is from age to age, toward those who fear him. His salvation is for the children’s children

Psalm 105:11

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

Psalm 105:9

Which he made with Abraham, and swore to Isaac,

Exodus 13:11

“When the Lord, your God, has brought you into the land of the Canaanites, just as he swore to you and your ancestors, and gives it to you,

Exodus 21:6

his master shall bring him to God and there, at the door or doorpost, he shall pierce his ear with an awl, thus keeping him as his slave forever.

Exodus 29:45

I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites and will be their God.

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 40:15

As you have anointed their father, anoint them also as my priests. Thus, by being anointed, shall they receive a perpetual priesthood throughout all future generations.

Exodus 6:4

I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they were residing as aliens.

Exodus 6:7

I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God; and you will know that I, the Lord, am your God who has freed you from the burdens of the Egyptians

Jeremiah 25:5

to this message: Turn back, each of you, from your evil way and from your evil deeds; then you shall remain in the land which the Lord gave you and your ancestors, from of old and forever.

Jeremiah 31:1

At that time—oracle of the Lord— I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

Ezekiel 11:20

so that they walk according to my statutes, taking care to keep my ordinances. Thus they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 33:24

Son of man, these who live among the ruins in the land of Israel are saying: “Abraham was only one person, yet he was given possession of the land. Since we are many, the land must be given to us as our possession.”

Leviticus 14:34

When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you to possess, if I put a fungal infection in any house of the land you occupy,

Leviticus 16:34

This, then, shall be an everlasting statute for you: once a year atonement shall be made on behalf of the Israelites for all their sins. And Moses did as the Lord had commanded him.

Leviticus 26:12

Ever present in your midst, I will be your God, and you will be my people;

Zechariah 8:8

I will bring them back to dwell within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, in faithfulness and justice.

Numbers 10:29

Moses said to Hobab, son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place concerning which the Lord has said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will be generous toward you, for the Lord has promised prosperity to Israel.”

Numbers 25:13

which shall be for him and for his descendants after him the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous on behalf of his God and thus made expiation for the Israelites.

Numbers 27:12

The Lord said to Moses: Go up into this mountain of the Abarim range and view the land that I have given to the Israelites.

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 14:2

For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own. Clean and Unclean Animals.

Deuteronomy 26:18

And today the Lord has accepted your agreement: you will be a people specially his own, as he promised you, you will keep all his commandments,

Deuteronomy 29:13

But it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant, with its curse,

Deuteronomy 32:49

Ascend this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo in the land of Moab facing Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.

Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High allotted each nation its heritage, when he separated out human beings, He set up the boundaries of the peoples after the number of the divine beings;

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 4:37

For love of your ancestors he chose their descendants after them and by his presence and great power led you out of Egypt,

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 9:15

For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.

Joshua 1:2

Moses my servant is dead. So now, you and the whole people with you, prepare to cross the Jordan to the land that I will give the Israelites.

Revelation 21:7

The victor will inherit these gifts, and I shall be his God, and he will be my son.