Genesis 17:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'

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  • Gen 12:7 : 7 And Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith, `To thy seed I give this land;' and he buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, who hath appeared unto him.
  • Gen 13:15 : 15 for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed -- to the age.
  • Lev 26:12 : 12 and I have walked habitually in your midst, and have become your God, and ye -- ye are become My people;
  • Ps 105:11 : 11 Saying, `To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,'
  • Ps 105:9 : 9 That He hath made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,
  • Deut 29:13 : 13 in order to establish thee to-day to Him for a people, and He Himself is thy God, as He hath spoken to thee, and as He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
  • Gen 13:17 : 17 rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'
  • Gen 28:4 : 4 and He doth give to thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee, to cause thee to possess the land of thy sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.'
  • Exod 6:7 : 7 and have taken you to Me for a people, and I have been to you for God, and ye have known that I `am' Jehovah your God, who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians;
  • Gen 48:4 : 4 and saith unto me, Lo, I am making thee fruitful, and have multiplied thee, and given thee for an assembly of peoples, and given this land to thy seed after thee, a possession age-during.
  • Gen 15:7-9 : 7 And He saith unto him, `I `am' Jehovah who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to thee this land to possess it;' 8 and he saith, `Lord Jehovah, whereby do I know that I possess it?' 9 And He saith unto him, `Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a young bird;' 10 and he taketh to him all these, and separateth them in the midst, and putteth each piece over against its fellow, but the bird he hath not divided; 11 and the ravenous birds come down upon the carcases, and Abram causeth them to turn back. 12 And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep hath fallen upon Abram, and lo, a terror of great darkness is falling upon him; 13 and He saith to Abram, `knowing -- know that thy seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years, 14 and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance; 15 and thou -- thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age; 16 and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.' 17 And it cometh to pass -- the sun hath gone in, and thick darkness hath been -- and lo, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which hath passed over between those pieces. 18 In that day hath Jehovah made with Abram a covenant, saying, `To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Phrat, 19 with the Kenite, and 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 `A sojourner and a settler I `am' with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.'
  • Exod 40:15 : 15 and anointed them as thou hast anointed their father, and they have acted as priests to Me, and their anointing hath been to be to them for a priesthood age-during, to their generations.'
  • Num 25:13 : 13 and it hath been to him and to his seed after him a covenant of a priesthood age-during, because that he hath been zealous for his God, and doth make atonement for the sons of Israel.'
  • Deut 4:37 : 37 `And because that He hath loved thy fathers, He doth also fix on their seed after them, and doth bring thee out, in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt:
  • Deut 14:2 : 2 for a holy people `art' thou to Jehovah thy God, and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who `are' on the face of the ground.
  • Deut 26:18 : 18 `And Jehovah hath caused thee to promise to-day to become His people, a peculiar treasure, as He hath spoken to thee, and to keep all His commands;
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 For -- not so `is' my house with God; For -- a covenant age-during He made with me, Arranged in all things, and kept; For -- all my salvation, and all desire, For -- He hath not caused `it' to spring up.
  • Ps 103:17 : 17 And the kindness of Jehovah `Is' from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons,
  • Heb 9:15 : 15 And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,
  • Lev 16:34 : 34 `And this hath been to you for a statute age-during, to make atonement for the sons of Israel, because of all their sins, once in a year;' and he doth as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
  • Deut 32:8 : 8 In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam -- He setteth up the borders of the peoples By the number of the sons of Israel.
  • Exod 21:6 : 6 then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him -- to the age.
  • Exod 31:16-17 : 16 and the sons of Israel have observed the sabbath; to keep the sabbath to their generations `is' a covenant age-during, 17 between Me and the sons of Israel it `is' a sign -- to the age; for six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, and in the seventh day He hath ceased, and is refreshed.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 17:4-7
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    87%

    4 `I -- lo, My covenant `is' with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

    5 and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;

    6 and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.

    7 `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

  • Gen 35:12
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    12 and the land which I have given to Abraham and to Isaac -- to thee I give it, yea to thy seed after thee I give the land.'

  • Gen 13:15-17
    3 verses
    84%

    15 for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed -- to the age.

    16 And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered;

    17 rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'

  • Gen 17:9-10
    2 verses
    83%

    9 And God saith unto Abraham, `And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;

    10 this `is' My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you `is' to be circumcised;

  • Gen 28:4
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    4 and He doth give to thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee, to cause thee to possess the land of thy sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.'

  • Gen 26:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3 sojourn in this land, and I am with thee, and bless thee, for to thee and to thy seed I give all these lands, and I have established the oath which I have sworn to Abraham thy father;

    4 and I have multiplied thy seed as stars of the heavens, and I have given to thy seed all these lands; and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth;

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

    17 And He establisheth it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during.

    18 Saying: To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,

  • Exod 6:4
    79%

    4 and also I have established My covenant with them, to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they have sojourned;

  • Gen 48:4
    79%

    4 and saith unto me, Lo, I am making thee fruitful, and have multiplied thee, and given thee for an assembly of peoples, and given this land to thy seed after thee, a possession age-during.

  • Ps 105:11
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    11 Saying, `To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,'

  • Gen 28:13-14
    2 verses
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    13 and lo, Jehovah is standing upon it, and He saith, `I `am' Jehovah, God of Abraham thy father, and God of Isaac; the land on which thou art lying, to thee I give it, and to thy seed;

    14 and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.

  • Exod 32:13
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    13 `Be mindful of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou hast sworn by Thyself, and unto whom Thou speakest: I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and all this land, as I have said, I give to your seed, and they have inherited to the age;'

  • Deut 1:8
    76%

    8 see, I have set before you the land; go in and possess the land which Jehovah hath sworn 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 and I have brought you in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and have given it to you -- a possession; I `am' Jehovah.'

  • Gen 22:17-18
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    76%

    17 that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which `is' on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

    18 and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

  • Gen 12:7
    76%

    7 And Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith, `To thy seed I give this land;' and he buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, who hath appeared unto him.

  • Gen 17:2
    76%

    2 and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'

  • Gen 17:19
    76%

    19 and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

  • Gen 15:18
    75%

    18 In that day hath Jehovah made with Abram a covenant, saying, `To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Phrat,

  • Gen 15:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 And He saith unto him, `I `am' Jehovah who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to thee this land to possess it;'

    8 and he saith, `Lord Jehovah, whereby do I know that I possess it?'

  • Josh 24:3
    74%

    3 and I take your father Abraham from beyond the River, and cause him to go through all the land of Canaan, and multiply his seed, and give to him Isaac.

  • Gen 12:2
    73%

    2 And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

  • Gen 18:18
    73%

    18 and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?

  • Ezek 36:28
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    28 And ye have dwelt in the land that I have given to your fathers, And ye have been to Me for a people, And I -- I am to you for God.

  • 2 Chr 20:7
    73%

    7 `Art not Thou our God? Thou hast dispossessed the inhabitants of this land from before Thy people Israel, and dost give it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend to the age,

  • Neh 9:8
    73%

    8 and didst find his heart stedfast before Thee, so as to make with him the covenant, 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 Thou dost establish Thy words, for Thou `art' righteous,

  • Jer 7:7
    72%

    7 Then I have caused you to dwell in this place, In the land that I gave to your fathers, From age even unto age.

  • Num 33:53
    72%

    53 and ye have possessed the land, and dwelt in it, for to you I have given the land -- to possess it.

  • Gen 17:21
    72%

    21 and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'