Genesis 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
KJV
Daboque tibi et semini tuo terram peregrinationis tuæ, omnem terram Chanaan in possessionem æternam, eroque Deus eorum.
Vulgate
καὶ δώσω σοι καὶ τῷ σπέρματί σου μετὰ σὲ τὴν γῆν ἣν παροικεῖς, πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν Χανάαν, εἰς κατάσχεσιν αἰώνιον· καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς θεός.
LXX
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
ASV
וְ/נָתַתִּ֣י לְ֠/ךָ וּ/לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֨ אַחֲרֶ֜י/ךָ אֵ֣ת אֶ֣רֶץ מְגֻרֶ֗י/ךָ אֵ֚ת כָּל אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן לַ/אֲחֻזַּ֖ת עוֹלָ֑ם וְ/הָיִ֥יתִי לָ/הֶ֖ם לֵ/אלֹהִֽים
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12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
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4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1819Christian hope takes up and fulfills the hope of the chosen people which has its origin and model in the hope of Abraham, who was blessed abundantly by the promises of God fulfilled in Isaac, and who was purified by the test of the sacrifice.86 "Hoping against hope, he believed, and thus became the father of many nations."87
Cross-references
- 2Sam 23:5 — Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to gro
- Acts 7:5 — And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
- Acts 13:19 — And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
- Deut 4:37 — And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
- Deut 9:5 — Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and
- Deut 14:2 — For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
- Deut 26:18 — And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
- Deut 29:13 — That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
- Deut 32:8 — When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
- Exod 6:7 — And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
- Exod 40:15 — And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their gen
- Gen 12:7 — And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
- Gen 12:7 — And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
- Gen 13:15 — For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
- Gen 13:17 — Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
- Gen 15:7 — And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
- Gen 23:4 — I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
- Gen 23:4 — I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
- Gen 24:7 — The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall se
- Gen 26:3 — Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father
- Gen 28:4 — And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
- Gen 36:7 — For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
- Gen 37:1 — And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
- Gen 48:4 — And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
- Gen 48:4 — And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
- Heb 11:8 — By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
- Heb 11:9 — By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
- Jer 11:4 — Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall
- Jer 25:5 — They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
- Lev 14:34 — When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
- Lev 26:12 — And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
- Num 25:13 — And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
- Num 34:2 — Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:
- Ps 105:9 — Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
- Ps 105:11 — Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance: