I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.
- KJV And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
- BSB I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
- NASB I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as strangers.
- NLT And I reaffirmed my covenant with them. Under its terms, I promised to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as foreigners.
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Quick answer
God recalls His covenant to give the patriarchs the land of Canaan, where they lived as sojourners. His ancient promise undergirds the coming deliverance.
Overview
God reminds Moses of the covenant established with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, pledging the land in which they had only sojourned. The exodus is thus not a new idea but the keeping of a long-standing promise. This continuity assures Israel that their rescue flows from God's faithfulness to His covenant word, the same faithfulness on which all gospel hope rests.
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- Gen 28:4and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”
- Gen 15:18In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
- Gen 17:7–8I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
- Gen 26:3Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
- Acts 7:5He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child.
- Isa 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Gen 17:13He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
- Gen 23:4“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
- Gen 17:4“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
- Gen 28:13Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your offspring.
- Ps 105:12when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
- Gen 15:13He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
- 2 Sam 23:5Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.
- Gen 6:18But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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