Genesis 17:8

New Century Version

You live in the land of Canaan now as a stranger, but I will give you and your descendants all this land forever. And I will be the God of your descendants.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

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

Genesis 13:15

All this land that you see I will give to you and your descendants forever.

Genesis 13:17

Get up! Walk through all this land because I am now giving it to you.”

Genesis 23:4

“I am only a stranger and a foreigner here. Sell me some of your land so that I can bury my dead wife.”

Genesis 26:24

The Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Don’t be afraid, because I am with you. I will bless you and give you many descendants because of my servant Abraham.”

Genesis 28:4

May he give you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham so that you may own the land where you are now living as a stranger, the land God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 35:27

Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre near Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

Genesis 36:7

Esau and Jacob’s belongings were becoming too many for them to live in the same land. The land where they had lived could not support both of them, because they had too many herds.

Genesis 37:1

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

Genesis 48:4

He said to me, ‘I will give you many children. I will make you the father of many peoples, and I will give your descendants this land forever.’

2 Samuel 23:5

“This is how God has cared for my family. God made a lasting agreement with me, right and sure in every way. He will accomplish my salvation and satisfy all my desires.

1 Chronicles 16:18

He said, “I will give the land of Canaan to you, to belong to you.”

Psalm 103:17

But the Lord’s love for those who respect him continues forever and ever, and his goodness continues to their grandchildren

Psalm 105:11

The Lord said, “I will give you the land of Canaan, and it will belong to you.”

Psalm 105:9

He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and the promise he made to Isaac.

Exodus 13:11

“And when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanites, the land he promised to give you and your ancestors,

Exodus 21:6

then the slave’s master must take him to God. The master is to take him to a door or doorframe and punch a hole through the slave’s ear using a sharp tool. Then the slave will serve that master all his life.

Exodus 29:45

I will live with the people of Israel and be their God.

Exodus 32:13

Remember the men who served you—Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. You promised with an oath to them and said, ‘I will make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised them, and it will be theirs forever.’ ”

Exodus 40:15

Pour the special oil on them in the same way that you appointed their father as priest so that they may also serve me as priests. Pouring oil on them will make them a family of priests, they and their descendants from now on.”

Exodus 6:4

I also made my agreement with them to give them the land of Canaan. They lived in that land, but it was not their own.

Exodus 6:7

I will make you my own people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am the Lord your God, the One who saves you from the hard work the Egyptians force you to do.

Jeremiah 25:5

Those prophets have said, “Stop your evil ways. Stop doing what is wrong so you can stay in the land that the Lord gave to you and your ancestors to live in forever.

Jeremiah 31:1

The Lord says, “At that time I will be God of all Israel’s family groups, and they will be my people.”

Ezekiel 11:20

Then they will live by my rules and obey my laws and keep them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 33:24

“Human, people who live in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying: ‘Abraham was only one person, yet he was given the land as his own. Surely the land has been given to us, who are many, as our very own.’

Leviticus 14:34

“I am giving the land of Canaan to your people. When they enter that land, if I cause mildew to grow in someone’s house in that land,

Leviticus 16:34

That law for removing the sins of the Israelites so they will belong to the Lord will continue forever. You will do these things once a year.” So they did the things the Lord had commanded Moses.

Leviticus 26:12

I will walk with you and be your God, and you will be my people.

Zechariah 8:8

I will bring them back, and they will live in Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their good and loyal God.”

Numbers 10:29

Hobab was the son of Reuel the Midianite, who was Moses’ father-in-law. Moses said to Hobab, “We are moving to the land the Lord promised to give us. Come with us and we will be good to you, because the Lord has promised good things to Israel.”

Numbers 25:13

He and his descendants will always be priests, because he had great concern for the honor of his God. He removed the sins of the Israelites so they would belong to God.”

Numbers 27:12

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Climb this mountain in the Abarim Mountains, and look at the land I have given to the Israelites.

Acts 7:5

God did not give Abraham any of this land, not even a foot of it. But God promised that he would give this land to him and his descendants, even before Abraham had a child.

Deuteronomy 14:2

You are holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. He has chosen you from all the people on earth to be his very own.

Deuteronomy 26:18

And today the Lord has said that you are his very own people, as he has promised you. But you must obey his commands.

Deuteronomy 29:13

This will make you today his own people. He will be your God, as he told you and as he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 32:49

“Go up the Abarim Mountains, to Mount Nebo in the country of Moab, across from Jericho. Look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as their own.

Deuteronomy 32:8

God Most High gave the nations their lands, dividing up the human race. He set up borders for the people and even numbered the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 34:4

Then the Lord said to Moses, “This is the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said to them, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.’ I have let you look at it, Moses, but you will not cross over there.”

Deuteronomy 4:37

Because the Lord loved your ancestors, he chose you, their descendants, and he brought you out of Egypt himself by his great strength.

Deuteronomy 9:5

You are going in to take the land, not because you are good and honest, but because these nations are evil. That is why the Lord your God will force them out ahead of you, to keep his promise to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Hebrews 9:15

For this reason Christ brings a new agreement from God to his people. Those who are called by God can now receive the blessings he has promised, blessings that will last forever. They can have those things because Christ died so that the people who lived under the first agreement could be set free from sin.

Joshua 1:2

The Lord said, “My servant Moses is dead. Now you and all these people go across the Jordan River into the land I am giving to the Israelites.

Revelation 21:7

Those who win the victory will receive this, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.