And (A)I will give to you and to your [a]descendants after you the land where you live as a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and (B)I will be their God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 17:8 Lit seed

The whole land of Canaan,(A) where you now reside as a foreigner,(B) I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you;(C) and I will be their God.(D)

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The Law of Redemption

23 ‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, because (A)the land is Mine; for (B)you are only strangers and residents with Me.

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23 “‘The land(A) must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine(B) and you reside in my land as foreigners(C) and strangers.

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15 For (A)we are strangers before You, and temporary residents, as all our fathers were; (B)our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

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15 We are foreigners and strangers(A) in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow,(B) without hope.

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12 (A)Hear my prayer, Lord, and listen to my cry for help;
Do not be silent (B)to my tears;
For I am (C)a stranger with You,
(D)One who lives abroad, like all my fathers.

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12 “Hear my prayer, Lord,
    listen to my cry for help;(A)
    do not be deaf(B) to my weeping.(C)
I dwell with you as a foreigner,(D)
    a stranger,(E) as all my ancestors were.(F)

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12 When they were only a (A)few people in number,
Very few, and (B)strangers in it.

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12 When they were but few in number,(A)
    few indeed, and strangers in it,(B)

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19 I am a (A)stranger on the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.

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19 I am a stranger on earth;(A)
    do not hide your commands from me.

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By faith he lived as a stranger in (A)the land of promise, as in a foreign land, (B)living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, (C)fellow heirs of the same promise;

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By faith he made his home in the promised land(A) like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents,(B) as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.(C)

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13 (A)All these died in faith, (B)without receiving the promises, but (C)having seen and welcomed them from a distance, and (D)having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

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13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised;(A) they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance,(B) admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.(C)

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