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.”
Parallel translations
- 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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Quick answer
God reaffirms the gift of the land of Abraham and Isaac to Jacob and his offspring.
Overview
The LORD promises Jacob the same land pledged to his fathers, securing the covenant inheritance for his descendants. This land grant is a tangible sign of God's faithfulness across the generations. It anticipates Israel's possession of Canaan and, ultimately, the better and eternal inheritance secured in Christ.
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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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