Hebrews 11:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

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  • Gen 12:8 : 8 And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.
  • Gen 13:3 : 3 And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;
  • Gen 13:18 : 18 And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.
  • Gen 18:9 : 9 And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, She is in the tent.
  • Heb 6:17 : 17 So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;
  • Gen 35:27 : 27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.
  • Gen 48:3-4 : 3 And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing, 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.
  • Acts 7:5-6 : 5 And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time. 6 And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.
  • 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.
  • Gen 25:27 : 27 And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
  • Gen 26:3-4 : 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;
  • 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.
  • Gen 28:13-14 : 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.
  • Gen 17:8 : 8 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.
  • Gen 18:1-2 : 1 Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day; 2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;
  • Gen 18:6 : 6 Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

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  • Heb 11:5-8
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    5By faith Enoch was taken up to heaven so that he did not see death; he was seen no longer, for God took him away: for before he was taken, witness had been given that he was well-pleasing to God:

    6And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.

    7By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.

    8By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

  • Heb 11:10-11
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    10For he was looking for the strong town, whose builder and maker is God.

    11And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

  • Heb 11:13-14
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    13All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

    14For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves.

  • Heb 11:16-20
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    16But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.

    17By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,

    18Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

    19Judging that God was able to give life even to the dead; and because of this he did get him back as if from death.

    20By faith Isaac, blessing Jacob and Esau, gave news of things to come.

  • Heb 11:26-28
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    26Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.

    27By faith he went out of Egypt, not being turned from his purpose by fear of the wrath of the king; for he kept on his way, as seeing him who is unseen.

    28By faith he kept the Passover, and put the sign of the blood on the houses, so that the angel of destruction might not put their oldest sons to death.

  • Heb 11:39
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    39And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith,

  • Gen 37:1
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    1Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.

  • Heb 11:1-3
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    1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.

    2For by it our fathers had God's approval.

    3By faith it is clear to us that the order of events was fixed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made from things which only seem to be.

  • Acts 7:3-6
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    3And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide.

    4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:

    5And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.

    6And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

  • Ps 105:9
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    9The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

  • Heb 6:12-13
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    12So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

    13For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

  • Gal 3:9
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    9So then those who are of faith have a part in the blessing of Abraham who was full of faith.

  • Gen 13:18
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    18And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

  • Gen 13:3
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    3And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

  • Gen 15:6
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    6And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

  • Heb 6:15
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    15And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

  • Exod 6:4
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    4And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings.

  • Gen 26:3
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    3Keep 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;

  • Rom 4:17-20
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    17(As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.

    18Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.

    19And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

    20Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,

  • Gen 21:34
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    34And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6But this man, who was not of their family, took the tenth from Abraham, and gave a blessing to him to whom God had given his undertaking.

  • Gen 28:4
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    4And 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.

  • Heb 13:14
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    14For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.

  • Gal 3:6
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    6Even as Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

  • Gen 13:5
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    5And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;

  • Heb 11:22
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    22By faith Joseph, when his end was near, said that the children of Israel would go out of Egypt; and gave orders about his bones.

  • Gen 12:1
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    1Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide: