1 Chronicles 16:18
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18 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as your portion for an inheritance.”
Genesis 13:15
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15 for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.(A)
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Micah 2:5
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5 Therefore you will have no one in the Lord’s assembly
to allot you a piece of land.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:8
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8 When the Most High[a] apportioned the nations,
when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the gods;[b](A)
Numbers 26:53-56
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53 “To these the land shall be apportioned for inheritance according to the number of names.(A) 54 To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance according to its enrollment.(B) 55 But the land shall be apportioned by lot; according to the names of their ancestral tribes they shall inherit.(C) 56 Their inheritance shall be apportioned according to lot between the larger and the smaller.”
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Genesis 35:11-12
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11 God said to him, “I am God Almighty:[a] be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.(A) 12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.”(B)
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- 35.11 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai
Genesis 28:13-14
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13 And the Lord stood beside him[a] and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring,(A) 14 and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed[b] in you and in your offspring.(B)
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Genesis 17:8
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8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding, and I will be their God.”(A)
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Genesis 12:7
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7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.(A)
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