Hebrews 11:15

New Century Version

If they had been thinking about the country they had left, they could have gone back.

Cross References

Genesis 11:31

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai (Abram’s wife) and moved out of Ur of Babylonia. They had planned to go to the land of Canaan, but when they reached the city of Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 12:10

At this time there was not much food in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because there was so little food.

Genesis 24:4

Instead, go back to my country, to the land of my relatives, and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 31:18

and they began their journey back to Isaac, his father, in the land of Canaan. All the flocks of animals that Jacob owned walked ahead of them. He carried everything with him that he had gotten while he lived in Northwest Mesopotamia.

Hebrews 11:14

When people say such things, they show they are looking for a country that will be their own.