“I will give to you, and to your offspringor, seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.””
— WEB
Genesis 17:8
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“And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
— KJV
“And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
— ASV
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Commentary
I will give unto thee . . . the land--It had been previously promised to Abraham and his posterity (Gen 15:18). Here it is promised as an "everlasting possession," and was, therefore, a type of heaven, "the better country" (Heb 11:16).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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