我要把你现在寄居的整个迦南赐给你和你的后裔永远作产业,我也必做他们的上帝。”

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I will give the whole land of Canaan—the land where you are now residing[a]—to you and your descendants after you as a permanent[b] possession. I will be their God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 17:8 tn The verbal root is גּוּר (gur, “to sojourn, to reside temporarily,” i.e., as a resident foreigner). It is the land in which Abram resides, but does not yet possess as his very own.
  2. Genesis 17:8 tn Or “as an eternal.”