Genesis 12:7

12:7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants ¹  I will give this land.” So Abram ²  built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15

13:15 I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants ³  forever.

Genesis 13:17

13:17 Get up and ⁴  walk throughout ⁵  the land, ⁶  for I will give it to you.”

Genesis 15:7

15:7 The Lord said ⁷  to him, “I am the Lord ⁸  who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans ⁹  to give you this land to possess.”

Genesis 15:18

15:18 That day the Lord made a covenant ¹⁰  with Abram: “To your descendants I give ¹¹  this land, from the river of Egypt ¹²  to the great river, the Euphrates River –

Genesis 17:8

17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing ¹³  – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent ¹⁴  possession. I will be their God.”

Genesis 26:3

26:3 Stay ¹⁵  in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, ¹⁶  for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, ¹⁷  and I will fulfill ¹⁸  the solemn promise I made ¹⁹  to your father Abraham.

Genesis 28:13

28:13 and the Lord stood at its top. He said, “I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. ²⁰  I will give you and your descendants the ground ²¹  you are lying on.

Genesis 35:12

35:12 The land I gave ²²  to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants ²³  I will also give this land.”

Genesis 46:4

46:4 I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. ²⁴  Joseph will close your eyes.” ²⁵ 

Exodus 33:1

33:1 The Lord said to Moses, “Go up ²⁶  from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath ²⁷  to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ ²⁸ 

Numbers 32:11

32:11 ‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, ²⁹  not ³⁰  one of the men twenty years old and upward ³¹  who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give ³²  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

Deuteronomy 1:8

1:8 Look! I have already given the land to you. ³³  Go, occupy the territory that I, ³⁴  the Lord, promised ³⁵  to give to your ancestors ³⁶  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.” ³⁷ 

Deuteronomy 6:10

Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively

6:10 Then when the Lord your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you – a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

[12:7]  ¹ tn The same Hebrew term זֶרַע (zera’) may mean “seed” (for planting), “offspring” (occasionally of animals, but usually of people), or “descendants” depending on the context.

[12:7]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abram) has been supplied in the translation for clarification.

[13:15]  ³ tn Heb “for all the land which you see to you I will give it and to your descendants.”

[13:17]  ⁴ tn The connective “and” is not present in the Hebrew text; it has been supplied for purposes of English style.

[13:17]  ⁵ tn The Hitpael form הִתְהַלֵּךְ (hithallekh) means “to walk about”; it also can carry the ideas of moving about, traversing, going back and forth, or living in an area. It here has the connotation of traversing the land to survey it, to look it over.

[13:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “the land to its length and to its breadth.” This phrase has not been included in the translation because it is somewhat redundant (see the note on the word “throughout” in this verse).

[15:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “And he said.”

[15:7]  ⁸ sn I am the Lord. The Lord initiates the covenant-making ceremony with a declaration of who he is and what he has done for Abram. The same form appears at the beginning of the covenant made at Sinai (see Exod 20:1).

[15:7]  ⁹ sn The phrase of the Chaldeans is a later editorial clarification for the readers, designating the location of Ur. From all evidence there would have been no Chaldeans in existence at this early date; they are known in the time of the neo-Babylonian empire in the first millennium b.c.

[15:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “cut a covenant.”

[15:18]  ¹¹ tn The perfect verbal form is understood as instantaneous (“I here and now give”). Another option is to understand it as rhetorical, indicating certitude (“I have given” meaning it is as good as done, i.e., “I will surely give”).

[15:18]  ¹² sn The river of Egypt is a wadi (a seasonal stream) on the northeastern border of Egypt, not to the River Nile.

[17:8]  ¹³ 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.

[17:8]  ¹⁴ tn Or “as an eternal.”

[26:3]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew verb גּוּר (gur) means “to live temporarily without ownership of land.” Abraham’s family will not actually possess the land of Canaan until the Israelite conquest hundreds of years later.

[26:3]  ¹⁶ tn After the imperative “stay” the two prefixed verb forms with prefixed conjunction here indicate consequence.

[26:3]  ¹⁷ tn The Hebrew term זֶרַע (zera’) occurring here and in v. 18 may mean “seed” (for planting), “offspring” (occasionally of animals, but usually of people), or “descendants” depending on the context.

[26:3]  ¹⁸ tn The Hiphil stem of the verb קוּם (qum) here means “to fulfill, to bring to realization.” For other examples of this use of this verb form, see Lev 26:9; Num 23:19; Deut 8:18; 9:5; 1 Sam 1:23; 1 Kgs 6:12; Jer 11:5.

[26:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the oath which I swore.”

[28:13]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac.” The Hebrew word for “father” can typically be used in a broader sense than the English word, in this case referring to Abraham (who was Jacob’s grandfather). For stylistic reasons and for clarity, the words “your father” are supplied with “Isaac” in the translation.

[28:13]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew term אֶרֶץ (’erets) can mean “[the] earth,” “land,” “region,” “piece of ground,” or “ground” depending on the context. Here the term specifically refers to the plot of ground on which Jacob was lying, but at the same time this stands by metonymy for the entire land of Canaan.

[35:12]  ²² tn The Hebrew verb translated “gave” refers to the Abrahamic promise of the land. However, the actual possession of that land lay in the future. The decree of the Lord made it certain; but it has the sense “promised to give.”

[35:12]  ²³ tn Heb “and to your offspring after you.”

[46:4]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and I, I will bring you up, also bringing up.” The independent personal pronoun before the first person imperfect verbal form draws attention to the speaker/subject, while the infinitive absolute after the imperfect strongly emphasizes the statement: “I myself will certainly bring you up.”

[46:4]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and Joseph will put his hand upon your eyes.” This is a promise of peaceful death in Egypt with Joseph present to close his eyes.

[33:1]  ²⁶ tn The two imperatives underscore the immediacy of the demand: “go, go up,” meaning “get going up” or “be on your way.”

[33:1]  ²⁷ tn Or “the land which I swore.”

[33:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “seed.”

[32:11]  ²⁹ tn The clause is difficult; it means essentially that “they have not made full [their coming] after” the Lord.

[32:11]  ³⁰ tn The sentence begins with “if they see….” This is the normal way for Hebrew to express a negative oath – “they will by no means see….” The sentence is elliptical; it is saying something like “[May God do so to me] if they see,” meaning they won’t see. Of course here God is taking the oath, which is an anthropomorphic act. He does not need to take an oath, and certainly could not swear by anyone greater, but it communicates to people his resolve.

[32:11]  ³¹ tc The LXX adds “those knowing bad and good.”

[32:11]  ³² tn The words “to give” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[1:8]  ³³ tn Heb “I have placed before you the land.”

[1:8]  ³⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” Since the Lord is speaking, it is preferable for clarity to supply the first person pronoun in the translation.

[1:8]  ³⁵ tn Heb “swore” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). This refers to God’s promise, made by solemn oath, to give the patriarchs the land.

[1:8]  ³⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 11, 21, 35).

[1:8]  ³⁷ tn Heb “their seed after them.”