The Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your offspring I will give this land.’ So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:15 - New International Version (Anglicised) All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring for ever. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your posterity forever. [Acts 7:5.] American Standard Version (1901) for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. Common English Bible because all the land that you see I give you and your descendants forever. Catholic Public Domain Version All the land that you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring even forever. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever. |
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your offspring I will give this land.’ So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.’
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates –
He also said to him, ‘I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.’
Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.
‘The Lord, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, “To your offspring I will give this land” – he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.
There above it stood the Lord, and he said: ‘I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.’
The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.’
and said to me, “I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.”
Then Joseph said to his brothers, ‘I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’
‘To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit.’
Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it for ever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
those the Lord blesses will inherit the land, but those he curses will be destroyed.
Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance for ever.” ’
Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, “I will give it to your descendants.”
For a little while your people possessed your holy place, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.
‘Command the Israelites and say to them: “When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries:
He gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child.
Then the Lord said to him, ‘This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, “I will give it to your descendants.” I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.’
It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the Lord your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.