Hebrews 11:9

World English Bible (2000)

By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

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  • Gen 12:8 : 8 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.
  • Gen 13:3 : 3 He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
  • Gen 13:18 : 18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
  • Gen 18:9 : 9 They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."
  • Heb 6:17 : 17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
  • Gen 35:27 : 27 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
  • Gen 48:3-4 : 3 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 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.'
  • Acts 7:5-6 : 5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child. 6 God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
  • 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."
  • Gen 25:27 : 27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
  • Gen 26:3-4 : 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,
  • 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."
  • Gen 28:13-14 : 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.
  • Gen 17:8 : 8 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."
  • Gen 18:1-2 : 1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. 2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
  • Gen 18:6 : 6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."

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  • Heb 11:5-8
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    5By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

    6Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

    7By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

    8By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

  • Heb 11:10-11
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    10For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

    11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

  • Heb 11:13-14
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    13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

    14For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

  • Heb 11:16-20
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    16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

    17By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

    18even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

    19concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

    20By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

  • Heb 11:26-28
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    26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

    27By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

    28By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

  • Heb 11:39
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    39These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,

  • Gen 37:1
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    1Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.

  • Heb 11:1-3
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    1Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

    2For by this, the elders obtained testimony.

    3By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

  • Acts 7:3-6
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    3and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.'

    4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living.

    5He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

    6God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

  • Ps 105:9
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    9the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

  • Heb 6:12-13
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    12that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

    13For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,

  • Gal 3:9
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    9So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  • Gen 13:18
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    18Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

  • Gen 13:3
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    3He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

  • Gen 15:6
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    6He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

  • Heb 6:15
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    15Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

  • Exod 6:4
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    4I 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 26:3
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    3Live 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.

  • Rom 4:17-20
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    17As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

    18Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."

    19Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

    20Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

  • Gen 21:34
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    34Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

  • Gen 28:4
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    4and 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."

  • Heb 13:14
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    14For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

  • Gal 3:6
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    6Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

  • Gen 13:5
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    5Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

  • Heb 11:22
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    22By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.

  • Gen 12:1
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    1Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.