Genesis 17:8

New English Translation

I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. 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

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

Genesis 13:17

Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”

Genesis 23:4

“I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”

Genesis 26:24

The Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”

Genesis 28:4

May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”

Genesis 35:27

So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

Genesis 36:7

because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.

Genesis 37:1

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

Genesis 48:4

He said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.’

2 Samuel 23:5

My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.

1 Chronicles 16:18

saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

Psalm 103:17

But the Lord continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers, and is faithful to their descendants,

Psalm 105:11

saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

Psalm 105:9

the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!

Exodus 13:11

When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

Exodus 21:6

then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorposts, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

Exodus 29:45

I will reside among the Israelites, and I will be their God,

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”

Exodus 40:15

and anoint them just as you anointed their father, so that they may minister as my priests; their anointing will make them a priesthood that will continue throughout their generations.”

Exodus 6:4

I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.

Exodus 6:7

I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.

Jeremiah 25:5

He said through them, ‘Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and stop doing the evil things you are doing. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live here in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors as a lasting possession.

Jeremiah 31:1

At that time I will be the God of all the clans of Israel and they will be my people. I, the Lord, affirm it!”

Ezekiel 11:20

so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 33:24

“Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.’

Leviticus 14:34

“When you enter the land of Canaan which I am about to give to you for a possession, and I put a diseased infection in a house in the land you are to possess,

Leviticus 16:34

This is to be a perpetual statute for you to make atonement for the Israelites for all their sins once a year.” So he did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Leviticus 26:12

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

Zechariah 8:8

And I will bring them to settle within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness.’

Numbers 10:29

Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place about which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things for Israel.”

Numbers 25:13

So it will be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he has been zealous for his God, and has made atonement for the Israelites.’”

Numbers 27:12

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range, and see the land I have given to the Israelites.

Acts 7:5

He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:18

And today the Lord has declared you to be his special people (as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

Deuteronomy 29:13

Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 32:49

“Go up to this Abarim hill country, to Mount Nebo (which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho) and look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.

Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.

Deuteronomy 34:4

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

Deuteronomy 4:37

Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Hebrews 9:15

And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

Joshua 1:2

“Moses my servant is dead. Get ready! Cross the Jordan River! Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them.

Revelation 21:7

The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.