Hebrews 11:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return.

Cross References

Genesis 11:31

Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 24:4

but will go to my country and to my kindred and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 31:18

and he drove away all his livestock, all the property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

Hebrews 11:14

for people who speak in this way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.