Numbers 34:2
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2 “Command the Israelites, and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan, defined by its boundaries),(A)
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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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Psalm 105:11
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11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
as your portion for an inheritance.”(A)
1 Peter 1:3-4
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A Living Hope
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead(A) 4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
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Deuteronomy 1:7-8
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7 Resume your journey, and go into the hill country of the Amorites as well as into the neighboring regions—the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, the Negeb,[a] and the seacoast—the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. 8 See, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.’(A)
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- 1.7 Q ms Sam Vg: MT and the Negeb
Ephesians 1:18
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18 so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may perceive what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints,
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Ephesians 1:14
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14 this[a] is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of his glory.(A)
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- 1.14 Other ancient authorities read who
Acts 26:18
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18 to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’(A)
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Acts 17:26
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26 From one ancestor[a] he made all peoples to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,(A)
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- 17.26 Gk From one; other ancient authorities read From one blood
Ezekiel 47:14
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14 You shall divide it equally; I swore to give it to your ancestors, and this land shall fall to you as your inheritance.(A)
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Jeremiah 3:19
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19 I thought
how I would set you among my children
and give you a pleasant land,
the most beautiful heritage of all the nations.
And I thought you would call to me, “My Father,”
and would not turn from following me.(A)
Psalm 78:54-55
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54 And he brought them to his holy hill,
to the mountain that his right hand had won.(A)
55 He drove out nations before them;
he apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.(B)
Psalm 16:5-6
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5 The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;
you hold my lot.(A)
6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
I have a goodly heritage.(B)
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