Genesis 17:8

17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing ¹  – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent ²  possession. I will be their God.”

Genesis 23:4

23:4 “I am a temporary settler ³  among you. Grant ⁴  me ownership ⁵  of a burial site among you so that I may ⁶  bury my dead.” ⁷ 

Genesis 28:4

28:4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham ⁸  so that you may possess the land ⁹  God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.” ¹⁰ 

Genesis 36:7

36:7 because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled ¹¹  was not able to support them because of their livestock.

Hebrews 11:9-16

11:9 By faith he lived as a foreigner ¹²  in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs ¹³  of the same promise. 11:10 For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, ¹⁴  whose architect and builder is God. 11:11 By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, ¹⁵  he received the ability to procreate, ¹⁶  because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy. 11:12 So in fact children ¹⁷  were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand ¹⁸  on the seashore. ¹⁹  11:13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, ²⁰  but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners ²¹  on the earth. 11:14 For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 11:15 In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 11:16 But as it is, ²²  they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

¹ tn The verbal root is גּוּר (gur, “to sojourn, to reside temporarily,” i.e., as a resident alien). It is the land in which Abram resides, but does not yet possess as his very own.

² tn Or “as an eternal.”

³ tn Heb “a resident alien and a settler.”

⁴ tn Heb “give,” which is used here as an idiom for “sell” (see v. 9). The idiom reflects the polite bartering that was done in the culture at the time.

⁵ tn Or “possession.”

⁶ tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction expresses purpose.

⁷ tn Heb “bury my dead out of my sight.” The last phrase “out of my sight” has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Heb “and may he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you.” The name “Abraham” is an objective genitive here; this refers to the blessing that God gave to Abraham.

⁹ tn The words “the land” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the land of your sojournings,” that is, the land where Jacob had been living as a resident alien, as his future descendants would after him.

¹¹ tn Heb “land of their settlements.”

¹² tn Or “settled as a resident alien.”

¹³ tn Or “heirs with him.”

¹⁴ tn Grk “that has foundations.”

¹⁵ tn Grk “past the time of maturity.”

¹⁶ tn Grk “power to deposit seed.” Though it is not as likely, some construe this phrase to mean “power to conceive seed,” making the whole verse about Sarah: “by faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and too old, she received ability to conceive, because she regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.”

¹⁷ tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.

¹⁸ tn Grk a collective “the sand.”

¹⁹ sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).

²⁰ tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.

²¹ tn Or “sojourners.”

²² tn Grk “now.”