I will give to you and to your seed after you the land where you are an outsider —the whole land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”
Psalm 105:12 - Tree of Life Version When they were but few in number, few indeed, and foreigners in it, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 When they were but a few men in number; Yea, very few, and strangers in it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When they were but a few men in number, in fact, very few, and were temporary residents and strangers in it, American Standard Version (1901) When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it. Common English Bible When they were few in number— insignificant, just immigrants— Catholic Public Domain Version And they believed his words, and they sang his praises. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they believed his words: and they sang his praises. |
I will give to you and to your seed after you the land where you are an outsider —the whole land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”
“I am an outsider and a sojourner among you. Give me a gravesite among you so that I may bury my dead from before my presence.”
But Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You’ve brought trouble on me, making me a stench among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am but a few men—they’ll gather against me and strike me—then I’ll be destroyed, my household and I.”
I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage where they journeyed.
Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you. For when I called him, he was but one, then I blessed him and multiplied him.”
He gave him no inheritance in it—not even a foothold—yet He promised ‘to give it to him as a possession to him and to his descendants after him,’ even though he had no child.
“Then you are to respond before Adonai your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as an outsider, few in number. But there he became a great nation—mighty and numerous.
“It is not because you are more numerous than all the peoples that Adonai set His love on you and chose you—for you are the least of all peoples.
So from one—and him as good as dead—were fathered offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and as uncountable as the sand on the seashore.
By faith he migrated to the land of promise as if it were foreign, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob—fellow heirs of the same promise.