Genesis 17:8
17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing
– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent
possession. I will be their God.”
Genesis 23:4
23:4 “I am a temporary settler
among you. Grant
me ownership
of a burial site among you so that I may
bury my dead.”
Genesis 26:3
26:3 Stay
in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you,
for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants,
and I will fulfill
the solemn promise I made
to your father Abraham.
Genesis 35:27
35:27 So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Acts 7:5-6
7:5 He
did not give any of it to him for an inheritance,
not even a foot of ground,
yet God
promised
to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him,
even though Abraham
as yet had no child.
7:6 But God spoke as follows: ‘Your
descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.