Numbers 33:51-53

33:51 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 33:52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, ¹  and demolish their high places. 33:53 You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

Genesis 12:6-7

12:6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree ²  of Moreh ³  at Shechem. ⁴  (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.) ⁵  12:7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants ⁶  I will give this land.” So Abram ⁷  built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15-17

13:15 I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants ⁸  forever. 13:16 And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted. ⁹  13:17 Get up and ¹⁰  walk throughout ¹¹  the land, ¹²  for I will give it to you.”

Genesis 15:16-21

15:16 In the fourth generation ¹³  your descendants ¹⁴  will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.” ¹⁵ 

15:17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch ¹⁶  passed between the animal parts. ¹⁷  15:18 That day the Lord made a covenant ¹⁸  with Abram: “To your descendants I give ¹⁹  this land, from the river of Egypt ²⁰  to the great river, the Euphrates River – 15:19 the land ²¹  of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 15:20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 15:21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.” ²² 

Genesis 17:8

17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing ²³  – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent ²⁴  possession. I will be their God.”

Deuteronomy 1:7-8

1:7 Get up now, ²⁵  resume your journey, heading for ²⁶  the Amorite hill country, to all its areas ²⁷  including the arid country, ²⁸  the highlands, the Shephelah, ²⁹  the Negev, ³⁰  and the coastal plain – all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates. 1:8 Look! I have already given the land to you. ³¹  Go, occupy the territory that I, ³²  the Lord, promised ³³  to give to your ancestors ³⁴  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.” ³⁵ 

Psalms 78:55

78:55 He drove the nations out from before them;

he assigned them their tribal allotments ³⁶ 

and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down. ³⁷ 

Psalms 105:11

105:11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan

as the portion of your inheritance.”

Ezekiel 47:14

47:14 You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; ³⁸  this land will be assigned as your inheritance. ³⁹ 

Acts 17:26

17:26 From one man ⁴⁰  he made every nation of the human race ⁴¹  to inhabit the entire earth, ⁴²  determining their set times ⁴³  and the fixed limits of the places where they would live, ⁴⁴ 

[33:52]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text repeats the verb “you will destroy.”

[12:6]  ¹ tn Or “terebinth.”

[12:6]  ² sn The Hebrew word Moreh (מוֹרֶה, moreh) means “teacher.” It may well be that the place of this great oak tree was a Canaanite shrine where instruction took place.

[12:6]  ³ tn Heb “as far as the place of Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh.”

[12:6]  ⁴ tn The disjunctive clause gives important information parenthetical in nature – the promised land was occupied by Canaanites.

[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]  ¹ tn Heb “for all the land which you see to you I will give it and to your descendants.”

[13:16]  ¹ tn The translation “can be counted” (potential imperfect) is suggested by the use of יוּכַל (yukhal, “is able”) in the preceding clause.

[13:17]  ¹ tn The connective “and” is not present in the Hebrew text; it has been supplied for purposes of English style.

[13:17]  ² 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]  ³ 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).

[15:16]  ¹ sn The term generation is being used here in its widest sense to refer to a full life span. When the chronological factors are considered and the genealogies tabulated, there are four hundred years of bondage. This suggests that in this context a generation is equivalent to one hundred years.

[15:16]  ² tn Heb “they”; the referent (“your descendants”) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[15:16]  ³ tn Heb “is not yet complete.”

[15:17]  ¹ sn A smoking pot with a flaming torch. These same implements were used in Mesopotamian rituals designed to ward off evil (see E. A. Speiser, Genesis [AB], 113-14).

[15:17]  ² tn Heb “these pieces.”

[15:18]  ¹ tn Heb “cut a covenant.”

[15:18]  ² 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]  ³ sn The river of Egypt is a wadi (a seasonal stream) on the northeastern border of Egypt, not to the River Nile.

[15:19]  ¹ tn The words “the land” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:21]  ¹ tn Each of the names in the list has the Hebrew definite article, which is used here generically for the class of people identified.

[17:8]  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.

[17:8]  ² tn Or “as an eternal.”

[1:7]  ¹ tn Heb “turn”; NAB “Leave here”; NIV, TEV “Break camp.”

[1:7]  ² tn Heb “go (to).”

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “its dwelling places.”

[1:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Arabah” (so ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “lowlands” (so TEV) or “steppes”; NIV, CEV, NLT “the western foothills.”

[1:7]  ⁶ sn The Hebrew term Negev means literally “desert” or “south” (so KJV, ASV). It refers to the area south of Beer Sheba and generally west of the Arabah Valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.

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

[1:8]  ² 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]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 11, 21, 35).

[1:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “their seed after them.”

[78:55]  ¹ tn Heb “he caused to fall [to] them with a measuring line an inheritance.”

[78:55]  ² tn Heb “and caused the tribes of Israel to settle down in their tents.”

[47:14]  ¹ sn Gen 15:9-21.

[47:14]  ² tn Heb “will fall to you as an inheritance.”

[17:26]  ¹ sn The one man refers to Adam (the word “man” is understood).

[17:26]  ² tn Or “mankind.” BDAG 276 s.v. ἔθνος 1 has “every nation of humankind Ac 17:26.”

[17:26]  ³ tn Grk “to live over all the face of the earth.”

[17:26]  ⁴ tn BDAG 884-85 s.v. προστάσσω has “(οἱ) προστεταγμένοι καιροί (the) fixed times Ac 17:26” here, but since the following phrase is also translated “fixed limits,” this would seem redundant in English, so the word “set” has been used instead.

[17:26]  ⁵ tn Grk “the boundaries of their habitation.” L&N 80.5 has “fixed limits of the places where they would live” for this phrase.