Genesis 28:4

New American Bible - revised edition

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.”

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 15:8

“Lord God,” he asked, “how will I know that I will possess it?”

Genesis 27:33

Isaac trembled greatly. “Who was it, then,” he asked, “that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all just before you came, and I blessed him. Now he is blessed!”

Genesis 37:1

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

1 Chronicles 29:15

For before you we are strangers and travelers, like all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without a future.

Psalm 39:12

You chastise man with rebukes for sin; like a moth you consume his treasures. Every man is but a breath. Selah

Psalm 72:17

May his name be forever; as long as the sun, may his name endure. May the tribes of the earth give blessings with his name; may all the nations regard him as favored.

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.

Galatians 3:14

that the blessing of Abraham might be extended to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. The Law Did Not Nullify the Promise.

Galatians 3:8

Scripture, which saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, foretold the good news to Abraham, saying, “Through you shall all the nations be blessed.”

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens,