Genesis 28:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

May he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alien, land that God gave to Abraham.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

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

Genesis 15:8

But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”

Genesis 27:33

Then Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him?—yes, and blessed he shall be!”

Genesis 37:1

Jacob settled in the land where his father had lived as an alien, the land of Canaan.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.

Psalm 72:17

May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun. May all nations be blessed in him; may they pronounce him happy.

Exodus 6:4

I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they resided as aliens.

Galatians 3:14

in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3:8

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would reckon as righteous the gentiles by faith, declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the gentiles shall be blessed in you.”

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 heavenly places,