Genesis 17:8

The Passion Translation

I will give to you and your seed the land to which you have migrated. The entire land of Canaan will be yours and your descendants’ as an everlasting possession. And I will be their God forever!”

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

Then Yahweh appeared before Abram and said, “This is the land I will personally deliver to your seed.” So Abram erected an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared before him.

Genesis 13:15

As far as you can see in every direction is the land that I will give to you forever—to you and your seed.

Genesis 13:17

Now, get up and walk through the land—its length and its breadth. All the land you walk upon will be my gift to you!”

Genesis 23:4

“I live as an alien and stranger among you. Sell me some of your property so I can use it as a burial site for my wife.”

Genesis 26:24

That very night, Yahweh appeared before him and said: “I am the God of Abraham your father. You will never need to fear a thing for I am with you and I will greatly bless you. Your children will flourish and succeed because of the promises I gave my servant Abraham.”

Genesis 28:4

May he impart to you and your seed the blessing of Abraham so that you may possess the land where you now live as a foreigner—the land God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 35:27

Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived as foreigners.

Genesis 36:7

Since the land where Jacob was living could not support their combined possessions and livestock,

Genesis 37:1

This is the story of the family of Jacob, who had settled in the land of Canaan, where his father Isaac had lived as an immigrant. Jacob’s son Joseph was seventeen, and he served his older half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, helping them watch over the flocks. One day Joseph went to his father with a bad report about their behavior.

Genesis 48:4

He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful and multiply your descendants until I have made you a company of nations. And I will give this land to your descendants for an everlasting possession.’

Psalm 103:17

But Lord, your endless love stretches from one eternity to the other, unbroken and unrelenting toward those who fear you and those who bow facedown in awe before you. Your faithfulness to keep every gracious promise you’ve made passes from parents, to children, to grandchildren, and beyond.

Psalm 105:11

He said to them, “I will give you all the land of Canaan as your inheritance.”

Jeremiah 25:5

They told you, ‘If you turn, each person, from your evil ways and from your evil doings, Yahweh will let you remain in the land that he gave you and your ancestors for all time.

Jeremiah 31:1

“At that time,” Yahweh declares, “I will be the true God of every family of Israel, and they will be my very own people.”

Ezekiel 11:20

Therefore, you will keep my laws and faithfully obey my commands. Then you will truly be the people of my heart, and I will be the God you worship.

Ezekiel 33:24

“Son of man, the people who are living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man when he took possession of the land, but we are many. Certainly, we can possess this land and rebuild.’

Acts 7:5

Although God gave him no parcel of land he could call his own, not even a footprint, yet he promised Abraham that he and his descendants would one day have it all. And even though as yet Abraham had no child,

Hebrews 9:15

So Jesus is the One who has enacted a new covenant with a new relationship with God so that those who accept the invitation will receive the eternal inheritance he has promised to his heirs. For he died to release us from the guilt of the violations committed under the first covenant.

Joshua 1:2

“My servant Moses is dead. Now get up! Prepare to cross the Jordan River, you and all the people. Lead them into the land that I am giving to the Israelites.

Revelation 21:7

The conquering ones will inherit these gifts from me. I will continue to be their God and they will continue being children for me.