Genesis 13:15
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15 for all the land which you see (A)I give to you and (B)your [a]descendants forever.
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- Genesis 13:15 Lit. seed
2 Chronicles 20:7
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7 Are You not (A)our God, who (B)drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham (C)Your friend forever?
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Genesis 12:7
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7 (A)Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, (B)“To your [a]descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an (C)altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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- Genesis 12:7 Lit. seed
Genesis 35:12
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12 The (A)land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this land.”
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Genesis 15:18
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18 On the same day the Lord (A)made a covenant with Abram, saying:
(B)“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—
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Acts 7:5
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5 And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, (A)He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him.
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Psalm 105:9-12
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9 (A)The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac,
10 And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
11 Saying, (B)“To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the allotment of your inheritance,”
12 (C)When they were few in number,
Indeed very few, (D)and strangers in it.
Psalm 37:29
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29 (A)The righteous shall inherit the land,
And dwell in it forever.
Psalm 37:22
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- Psalm 37:22 destroyed
Nehemiah 9:7-8
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7 “You are the Lord God,
Who chose (A)Abram,
And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans,
And gave him the name (B)Abraham;
8 You found his heart (C)faithful before You,
And made a (D)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.
You (E)have performed Your words,
For You are righteous.
Deuteronomy 26:2-4
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2 (A)that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and (B)go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. 3 And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord [a]your God that I have come to the country which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’
4 “Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.
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- Deuteronomy 26:3 LXX my
Numbers 34:12-29
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12 the border shall go down along the Jordan, and it shall end at (A)the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries.’ ”
13 Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: (B)“This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe. 14 (C)For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance. 15 The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan, across from Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”
The Leaders Appointed to Divide the Land
16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 17 “These are the names of the men who shall divide the land among you as an inheritance: (D)Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun. 18 And you shall take one (E)leader of every tribe to divide the land for the inheritance. 19 These are the names of the men: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh; 20 from the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud; 21 from the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon; 22 a leader from the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli; 23 from the sons of Joseph: a leader from the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod, 24 and a leader from the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan; 25 a leader from the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach; 26 a leader from the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan; 27 a leader from the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi; 28 and a leader from the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”
29 These are the ones the Lord commanded to [a]divide the inheritance among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
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- Numbers 34:29 apportion
Numbers 34:2
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2 “Command the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into (A)the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance—the land of Canaan to its boundaries.
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Exodus 33:1
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The Command to Leave Sinai
33 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Depart and go up from here, you (A)and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, (B)‘To your descendants I will give it.’
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Genesis 48:4
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4 and said to me, ‘Behold, I will (A)make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and (B)give this land to your descendants after you (C)as an everlasting possession.’
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Genesis 28:13
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13 (A)And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: (B)“I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; (C)the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.
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Genesis 28:4
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4 And give you (A)the blessing of Abraham,
To you and your descendants with you,
That you may inherit the land
(B)In[a] which you are a stranger,
Which God gave to Abraham.”
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- Genesis 28:4 Lit. Of your sojournings
Genesis 26:3-4
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3 (A)Dwell in this land, and (B)I will be with you and (C)bless you; for to you and your descendants (D)I give all these lands, and I will perform (E)the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. 4 And (F)I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; (G)and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
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Genesis 24:7
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7 The Lord God of heaven, who (A)took me from my father’s house and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, (B)‘To your [a]descendants I give this land,’ (C)He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
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- Genesis 24:7 Lit. seed
Genesis 17:7-8
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7 And I will (A)establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, (B)to be God to you and (C)your descendants after you. 8 Also (D)I give to you and your descendants after you the land (E)in[a] which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and (F)I will be their God.”
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- Genesis 17:8 Lit. of your sojournings
Matthew 5:5
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- Matthew 5:5 Or land
Isaiah 63:18
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18 (A)Your holy people have possessed it but a little while;
(B)Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.
Psalm 112:1-2
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The Blessed State of the Righteous
112 Praise[a] the Lord!
Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
Who (A)delights greatly in His commandments.
2 (B)His descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
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- Psalm 112:1 Heb. Hallelujah
Deuteronomy 34:4
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4 Then the Lord said to him, (A)“This is the land of which I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ (B)I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.”
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Genesis 18:18
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18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be (A)blessed in him?
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