Hebrews 11:9

New American Bible - revised edition

By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise;

Cross References

Genesis 12:8

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel, pitching his tent with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there to the Lord and invoked the Lord by name.

Genesis 13:18

Abram moved his tents and went on to settle near the oak of Mamre, which is at Hebron. There he built an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 13:3

From the Negeb he traveled by stages toward Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly stood,

Genesis 17:8

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.

Genesis 18:6

Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quick, three measures of bran flour! Knead it and make bread.”

Genesis 18:9

“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There in the tent,” he replied.

Genesis 21:34

Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

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 25:27

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country; whereas Jacob was a simple man, who stayed among the tents.

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 31:25

When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob’s tents were pitched in the hill country; Laban also pitched his tents in the hill country of Gilead.

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 47:9

Jacob replied: “The years I have lived as a wayfarer amount to a hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been these years of my life, and they do not compare with the years that my ancestors lived as wayfarers.”

Psalm 105:12

When they were few in number, a handful, and strangers there,

Jeremiah 35:7

Build no house and sow no seed; do not plant vineyards or own any. You must dwell in tents all your lives, so that you may live long on the land where you live as resident aliens.’

Hebrews 6:17

So when God wanted to give the heirs of his promise an even clearer demonstration of the immutability of his purpose, he intervened with an oath,