for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
Parallel translations
- KJV For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
- BSB for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
- NKJV for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.
- NASB for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever.
- NLT I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.
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Quick answer
God promised all the visible land to Abram and his offspring forever. The land grant is reaffirmed as a perpetual gift.
Overview
Yahweh pledges the entire land Abram can see to him and his descendants forever. This enduring promise undergirds Israel's claim to Canaan and points beyond it. The New Testament expands the inheritance to encompass the whole renewed creation through Christ, the true Seed (Rom 4:13).
Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Chr 20:7Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?
- 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 12:7Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
- Ps 37:22For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
- 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.
- Gen 35:12The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you will I give the land.”
- Neh 9:7–8You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,
- Ps 37:29The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.
- Ps 105:9–12the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
- Num 34:12–29The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’”
- Gen 26:3–4Live 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.
- Gen 48:4and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’
- Gen 24:7Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring. He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
- Num 34:2“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),
- Deut 34:4Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring. ’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”
- 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.”
- Deut 26:2–4that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
- Exod 33:1Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring. ’
- 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 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.
- Matt 5:5Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Ps 112:1–2Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
- Isa 63:18Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
- Gen 18:18since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
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