Genesis 24:6-7

24:6 “Be careful ¹  never to take my son back there!” Abraham told him. ²  24:7 “The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, ³  promised me with a solemn oath, ⁴  ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel ⁵  before you so that you may find ⁶  a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 26:3

26:3 Stay ⁷  in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, ⁸  for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, ⁹  and I will fulfill ¹⁰  the solemn promise I made ¹¹  to your father Abraham.

Genesis 27:44-45

27:44 Live with him for a little while ¹²  until your brother’s rage subsides. 27:45 Stay there ¹³  until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. ¹⁴  Why should I lose both of you in one day?” ¹⁵ 

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. ¹⁶  I will give you and your descendants the ground ¹⁷  you are lying on.

Genesis 28:15

28:15 I am with you! ¹⁸  I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”

Genesis 31:13

31:13 I am the God of Bethel, ¹⁹  where you anointed ²⁰  the sacred stone and made a vow to me. ²¹  Now leave this land immediately ²²  and return to your native land.’”

Acts 7:4-5

7:4 Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God ²³  made him move ²⁴  to this country where you now live. 7:5 He ²⁵  did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, ²⁶  not even a foot of ground, ²⁷  yet God ²⁸  promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, ²⁹  even though Abraham ³⁰  as yet had no child.

Hebrews 11:9

11:9 By faith he lived as a foreigner ³¹  in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs ³²  of the same promise.

Hebrews 11:15-16

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, ³³  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.

[24:6]  ¹ tn Heb “guard yourself.”

[24:6]  ² tn The introductory clause “And Abraham said to him” has been moved to the end of the opening sentence of direct discourse in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[24:7]  ³ tn Or “the land of my birth.”

[24:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying.”

[24:7]  ⁵ tn Or “his messenger.”

[24:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “before you and you will take.”

[26:3]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn After the imperative “stay” the two prefixed verb forms with prefixed conjunction here indicate consequence.

[26:3]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the oath which I swore.”

[27:44]  ¹² tn Heb “a few days.” Rebekah probably downplays the length of time Jacob will be gone, perhaps to encourage him and assure him that things will settle down soon. She probably expects Esau’s anger to die down quickly. However, Jacob ends up being gone twenty years and he never sees Rebekah again.

[27:45]  ¹³ tn The words “stay there” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[27:45]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and I will send and I will take you from there.” The verb “send” has no object in the Hebrew text; one must be supplied in the translation. Either “someone” or “a message” could be supplied, but since in those times a message would require a messenger, “someone” has been used.

[27:45]  ¹⁵ tn If Jacob stayed, he would be killed and Esau would be forced to run away.

[28:13]  ¹⁶ 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]  ¹⁷ 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.

[28:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Look, I [am] with you.” The clause is a nominal clause; the verb to be supplied could be present (as in the translation) or future, “Look, I [will be] with you” (cf. NEB).

[31:13]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[31:13]  ²⁰ sn You anointed the sacred stone. In Gen 28:18 the text simply reported that Jacob poured oil on top of the stone. Now that pouring is interpreted by the Lord as an anointing. Jacob had consecrated the place.

[31:13]  ²¹ sn And made a vow to me. The second clause reminds Jacob of the vow he made to the Lord when he anointed the stone (Gen 28:20-22). God is now going to take him back to the land, and so he will have to fulfill his vow.

[31:13]  ²² tn Heb “arise, leave!” The first imperative draws attention to the need for immediate action.

[7:4]  ²³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:4]  ²⁴ tn The translation “made him move” for the verb μετοικίζω (metoikizw) is given by L&N 85.83. The verb has the idea of “resettling” someone (BDAG 643 s.v.); see v. 43, where it reappears.

[7:5]  ²⁵ tn Grk “And he.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[7:5]  ²⁶ tn Grk “He did not give him an inheritance in it.” This could be understood to mean that God did not give something else to Abraham as an inheritance while he was living there. The point of the text is that God did not give any of the land to him as an inheritance, and the translation makes this clear.

[7:5]  ²⁷ tn Grk “a step of a foot” (cf. Deut 2:5).

[7:5]  ²⁸ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:5]  ²⁹ sn An allusion to Gen 12:7; 13:15; 15:2, 18; 17:8; 24:7; 48:4. On the theological importance of the promise and to his descendants after him, see Rom 4 and Gal 3.

[7:5]  ³⁰ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:9]  ³¹ tn Or “settled as a resident alien.”

[11:9]  ³² tn Or “heirs with him.”

[11:16]  ³³ tn Grk “now.”