Genesis 17:8

World English Bible (2000)

I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."

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  • Gen 12:7 : 7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
  • Gen 13:15 : 15 for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
  • Lev 26:12 : 12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
  • Ps 105:11 : 11 saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;"
  • Ps 105:9 : 9 the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
  • Deut 29:13 : 13 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
  • Gen 13:17 : 17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."
  • Gen 28:4 : 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."
  • Exod 6:7 : 7 and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
  • Gen 48:4 : 4 and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'
  • Gen 15:7-9 : 7 He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it." 8 He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?" 9 He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." 10 He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds. 11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. 12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him. 13 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years. 14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth, 15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full." 17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
  • Gen 23:4 : 4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
  • Exod 40:15 : 15 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations."
  • Num 25:13 : 13 and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.'"
  • Deut 4:37 : 37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
  • Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
  • Deut 26:18 : 18 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he doesn't make it grow.
  • Ps 103:17 : 17 But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children's children;
  • Heb 9:15 : 15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
  • Lev 16:34 : 34 "This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.
  • Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
  • Exod 21:6 : 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
  • Exod 31:16-17 : 16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"

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  • Gen 17:4-7
    4 verses
    87%

    4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

    5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

    6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

    7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

  • Gen 35:12
    84%

    12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I 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 offspring forever.

    16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.

    17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."

  • Gen 17:9-10
    2 verses
    83%

    9 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

    10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

  • Gen 28:4
    83%

    4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."

  • Gen 26:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

    4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

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

    17 He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

    18 saying, "I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance,"

  • Exod 6:4
    79%

    4 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

  • Gen 48:4
    79%

    4 and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'

  • Ps 105:11
    79%

    11 saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;"

  • Gen 28:13-14
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    77%

    13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.

    14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

  • Exod 32:13
    77%

    13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

  • Deut 1:8
    76%

    8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them."

  • Exod 6:8
    76%

    8 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.'"

  • Gen 22:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

    18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

  • Gen 12:7
    76%

    7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

  • Gen 17:2
    76%

    2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

  • Gen 17:19
    76%

    19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

  • Gen 15:18
    75%

    18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

  • Gen 15:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."

    8 He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?"

  • Josh 24:3
    74%

    3 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

  • Gen 12:2
    73%

    2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

  • Gen 18:18
    73%

    18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

  • Ezek 36:28
    73%

    28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

  • 2 Chr 20:7
    73%

    7 Didn't you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?

  • Neh 9:8
    73%

    8 and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

  • Jer 7:7
    72%

    7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.

  • Num 33:53
    72%

    53 and you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given given the land to you to possess it.

  • Gen 17:21
    72%

    21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."