Genesis 17:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

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  • Gen 12:7 : 7 And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.
  • Gen 13:15 : 15 For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.
  • Lev 26:12 : 12 And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.
  • Ps 105:11 : 11 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:
  • Ps 105:9 : 9 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;
  • Deut 29:13 : 13 And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • Gen 13:17 : 17 Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.
  • Gen 28:4 : 4 And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.
  • Exod 6:7 : 7 And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
  • Gen 48:4 : 4 And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.
  • Gen 15:7-9 : 7 And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage. 8 And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine? 9 And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon. 10 All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two. 11 And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away. 12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear. 13 And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years; 14 But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth. 15 As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place. 16 And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full. 17 Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies. 18 In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20 And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21 And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
  • Gen 23:4 : 4 I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.
  • Exod 40:15 : 15 And put oil on them as you did on their father, so that they may be my priests: the putting on of oil will make them priests for ever, from generation to generation.
  • Num 25:13 : 13 And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel.
  • Deut 4:37 : 37 And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;
  • Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
  • Deut 26:18 : 18 And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders;
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
  • Ps 103:17 : 17 But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;
  • Heb 9:15 : 15 And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.
  • Lev 16:34 : 34 And let this be an order for ever for you, so that the sin of the children of Israel may be taken away once every year. And he did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
  • Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.
  • Exod 21:6 : 6 Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.
  • Exod 31:16-17 : 16 And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 17:4-7
    4 verses
    87%

    4 As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

    5 No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

    6 I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

    7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

  • Gen 35:12
    84%

    12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.

  • Gen 13:15-17
    3 verses
    84%

    15 For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

    16 And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

    17 Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.

  • Gen 17:9-10
    2 verses
    83%

    9 And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

    10 And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.

  • Gen 28:4
    83%

    4 And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.

  • Gen 26:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3 Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

    4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

  • 1 Chr 16:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17 And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

    18 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:

  • Exod 6:4
    79%

    4 And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings.

  • Gen 48:4
    79%

    4 And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.

  • Ps 105:11
    79%

    11 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:

  • Gen 28:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13 And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

    14 Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

  • Exod 32:13
    77%

    13 Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

  • Deut 1:8
    76%

    8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

  • Exod 6:8
    76%

    8 And I will be your guide into the land which I made an oath to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for your heritage: I am Yahweh.

  • Gen 22:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    17 That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

    18 And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

  • Gen 12:7
    76%

    7 And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.

  • Gen 17:2
    76%

    2 And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.

  • Gen 17:19
    76%

    19 And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

  • Gen 15:18
    75%

    18 In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

  • Gen 15:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.

    8 And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?

  • Josh 24:3
    74%

    3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.

  • Gen 12:2
    73%

    2 And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

  • Gen 18:18
    73%

    18 Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

  • Ezek 36:28
    73%

    28 So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.

  • 2 Chr 20:7
    73%

    7 Did you not, O Lord our God, after driving out the people of this land before your people Israel, give it to the seed of Abraham, your friend, for ever?

  • Neh 9:8
    73%

    8 You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:

  • Jer 7:7
    72%

    7 Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.

  • Num 33:53
    72%

    53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.

  • Gen 17:21
    72%

    21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.