The 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.”
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- KJV And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
- BSB The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
- NKJV The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this land.”
- NASB “And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, And I will give the land to your descendants after you.”
- NLT And I will give you the land I once gave to Abraham and Isaac. Yes, I will give it to you and your descendants after you.”
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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 13:14–17Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
- 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 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:
- Exod 3:8I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Josh 6:1–21Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
- Neh 13:1–31On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,
- Gen 28:3–4May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
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