Verse 8

And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Derfor er jeg kommet for å redde dem fra egypternes hender og føre dem opp fra dette landet til et fruktbart og vidstrakt land, et land som flyter med melk og honning, til kanaaneernes, hetittenes, amorittenes, perisittenes, hevittene og jebusittenes land.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Jeg er kommet ned for å utfri dem fra egypternes hånd og føre dem opp til et godt og rommelig land, et land som flyter av melk og honning, til det området hvor kanaanittene, hittittene, amorittene, perisittene, hevittene og jebusittene bor.

• Norsk King James

  Og jeg er kommet ned for å befri dem fra egypternes hånd og for å føre dem opp fra landet til et godt og stort land, et land som flyter med melk og honning; til stedet for kanaaneerne, hittiitene, amorittene, perizzittene, hivittene og jebusittene.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Derfor er jeg kommet ned for å redde dem fra egypternes hånd og føre dem opp fra dette landet til et godt og romslig land, et land som flyter av melk og honning, hjem til kanaanittene, hetittene, amorittene, perisittene, hevittene og jebusittene.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Jeg har steget ned for å fri dem fra egypternes hånd og føre dem opp fra dette landet til et godt og vidt land, et land som flyter av melk og honning, til stedet der kanaaneerne, hetittene, amorittene, perisittene, hivittene og jebusittene bor.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Jeg har kommet ned for å fri dem fra egypternes hånd og føre dem opp fra det landet til et godt og vidstrakt land, et land som flyter av melk og honning, til stedet hvor kanaaneerne, hetittene, amorittene, perisittene, hevittene og jebusittene bor.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Jeg er kommet for å redde dem ut av egypternes hender og for å føre dem opp fra det landet til et godt og rikt land, et land som flyter over av melk og honning, til Kanaanittenes, hittittenes, amorittenes, perizzittenes, givittenes og jebusittenes land.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Jeg har kommet ned for å fri dem fra egypternes hånd og føre dem opp fra det landet til et godt og vidstrakt land, et land som flyter av melk og honning, til stedet hvor kanaaneerne, hetittene, amorittene, perisittene, hevittene og jebusittene bor.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Jeg har kommet ned for å befri dem fra Egypt og føre dem til et godt og vidstrakt land, et land som flyter av melk og honning, stedet hvor kanaanittene, hetittene, amorittene, perisittene, hevittene og jebusittene bor.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  'So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.'

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Så er jeg kommet ned for å redde dem fra egypterne og føre dem opp fra dette landet til et godt og vidstrakt land, et land som flyter med melk og honning, til stedet for kanaanittene, hetittene, amorittene, perisittene, hevittene og jebusittene.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og jeg er nedfaren for at redde dem af Ægypternes Haand og for at føre dem op af dette Land, til et godt og vidt Land, til et Land, som flyder med Melk og Honning, til Cananitens og Hethitens og Amoritens og Pheresitens og Hevitens og Jebusitens Sted.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Derfor har jeg steget ned for å befri dem av egypternes hånd og lede dem opp fra dette landet til et godt og stort land, et land som flyter med melk og honning, til stedet der kanaaneerne, hetittene, amorittene, perisittene, hevittene og jebusittene bor.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Jeg er kommet ned for å utfri dem fra egypternes hånd og føre dem opp fra det landet til et godt og stort land, et land som flyter med melk og honning, til stedet der kanaaneerne, hetittene, amorittene, perisittene, hevittene og jebusittene bor.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Jeg har steget ned for å befri dem fra egypternes hånd og føre dem opp fra det landet til et godt og vidstrakt land, et land som flyter med melk og honning, til stedet for kanaaneerne, hetittene, amorittene, perisittene, hivittene og jebusittene.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og jeg har kommet ned for å befri dem fra egypternes hånd og føre dem opp fra det landet til et godt og vidstrakt land, et land som flyter av melk og honning, til stedet for kanaaneerne, hetittene, amorittene, perisittene, hevittene og jebusittene.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Jeg har kommet ned for å befri dem fra egypternes hånd, og føre dem opp fra landet til et godt og vidstrakt land, et land som flyter av melk og honning, det stedet hvor kanaaneerne, hittittene, amorittene, perisittene, hevittene og jebusittene bor.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  and am come downe to delyuer them out of the handes of the Egiptians, and to brynge the out of that londe vnto a good londe and a large, and vnto a londe that floweth with mylke and hony: euen vnto the place of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Heuites, and of the Iebusites.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and am come downe to delyuer them from the power of the Egipcians, and to carye them out of that lode, in to a good and wyde londe, euen in to a londe that floweth with mylke and hony: namely, vnto the place of the Cananites, Hethites, Amorites, Pheresites, Heuytes & Iebusites.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Therefore I am come downe to deliuer them out of the hande of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that lande into a good lande and a large, into a lande that floweth with milke and honie, euen into the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And am come downe to deliuer the out of the hande of the Egyptians, and to bryng them out of that lande, vnto a good lande & a large, vnto a lande that floweth with mylke and hony, euen vnto the place of the Chanaanites, and Hethites, and Amorites, and Pherizites, and Heuites, and of the Iebusites.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and I go down to deliver it out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to cause it to go up out of the land, unto a land good and broad, unto a land flowing with milk and honey -- unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 50:24 : 24 And Joseph said unto his brothers, I die, and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
• Exod 3:17 : 17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
• Gen 15:18-21 : 18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
• Deut 1:25 : 25 And they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us back word, saying, It is a good land which the LORD our God is giving us.
• Deut 8:7-9 : 7 For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil, and honey; 9 A land where you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
• Jer 11:5 : 5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered and said, So be it, O LORD.
• Ezek 20:6 : 6 In the day that I lifted up my hand to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had spied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
• Exod 13:5 : 5 And it shall be when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
• Num 13:27 : 27 And they told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
• Exod 6:6-8 : 6 Therefore, say to the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: 7 And I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be to you a God: and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you into the land, about which I swore to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am the LORD.
• Exod 12:51 : 51 And it came to pass on the very same day, that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their divisions.
• Gen 18:21 : 21 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to me; and if not, I will know.
• Jer 32:22 : 22 And have given them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
• Neh 9:22-25 : 22 Moreover, You gave them kingdoms and nations, and divided them into districts: So they possessed the land of Sihon, the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. 23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land which You had promised to their forefathers they would enter and possess. 24 So the children entered and possessed the land; You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them as they wished. 25 And they captured fortified cities and a fertile land, and took possession of houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat, and delighted themselves in Your great goodness.
• Ps 12:5 : 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him who puffs at him.
• Deut 7:1 : 1 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you are going to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
• Deut 11:9-9 : 9 And that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land which you go to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven: 12 A land which the LORD your God cares for: the eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. 13 And it shall come to pass, if you diligently listen to my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil. 15 And I will send grass in your fields for your cattle, that you may eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart is not deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and He shuts up the heaven, so there is no rain, and the land yields no fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you. 18 Therefore, you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, so they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20 And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house, and upon your gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 22 For if you diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him; 23 Then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater and mightier nations than yourselves. 24 Every place where the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall be your territory.
• Deut 26:9-9 : 9 And he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, even a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have given me. And you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God: 11 And you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you. 12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled; 13 Then you shall say before the LORD your God, I have removed the sacred things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed your commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I taken away any of it for any unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead: but I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that you have commanded me. 15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
• Deut 27:3 : 3 And you shall write upon them all the words of this law, when you have crossed over, that you may go into the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey; as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you.
• Deut 28:11 : 11 And the LORD shall make you plentiful in goods, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give you.
• Josh 9:1 : 1 And it happened, when all the kings on this side of the Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and along all the coasts of the great sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;
• Neh 9:8 : 8 You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it to his descendants. And You have fulfilled Your words, for You are righteous;
• Ps 22:4-5 : 4 Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted, and You delivered them. 5 They cried to You, and were delivered; they trusted in You, and were not disappointed.
• Ps 34:8 : 8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man who trusts in him.
• Ps 91:15 : 15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.
• Num 14:7-8 : 7 And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceedingly good land. 8 If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
• Deut 1:7 : 7 Turn, and take your journey, and go to the mountain of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the plain, in the hills, and in the valley, and in the south, and by the sea, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.
• Exod 22:23-31 : 23 If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless. 25 If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest. 26 If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 27 for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious. 28 You shall not revile the gods nor curse the ruler of your people. 29 You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe produce and your juices. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me. 30 Likewise you shall do with your oxen and your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to me. 31 And you shall be holy men to me; neither shall you eat any meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.
• Exod 33:2-3 : 2 And I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 3 To a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in your midst; for you are a stiff-necked people: lest I consume you on the way.
• Exod 34:11 : 11 Observe what I command you this day: behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
• Num 13:19 : 19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they dwell in, whether in tent camps or fortified cities;
• Gen 11:5 : 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
• Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
• Gen 13:14-15 : 14 And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your descendants forever.
• Gen 15:14 : 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
• John 6:38 : 38 For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
• Isa 64:1 : 1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence,
• Jer 2:7 : 7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
• John 3:13 : 13 No man has ascended to heaven but he who came down from heaven, even the Son of Man who is in heaven.
• Ps 18:9-9 : 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and flew: yea, he flew upon the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. 12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. 13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hailstones and coals of fire. 14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he shot out lightning, and confused them. 15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. 16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me: for they were too strong for me. 18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my support. 19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.