Genesis 35:12
10 And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.
11 And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
13 Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.
14 So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
- KJV
- And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
- WEB
- The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.”
- ASV
- and the land which I gave unto Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
- DARBY
- And the land that I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
- BLB
- And the land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, I give to you. And to your seed after you I will give the land.”
- ÅB
- Og det landet som jeg gav Abraham og Isak, det vil jeg gi deg; og dine etterkommere vil jeg gi landet.
- OTB
- «Landet jeg ga til Abraham og Isak vil jeg gi til deg, og jeg vil gi dette landet til dine etterkommere etter deg.»
- B1930
- Og det land som jeg gav Abraham og Isak, det vil jeg gi dig; og din ætt efter dig vil jeg gi landet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Read in contextGenesis 28:13
And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
Read in contextGenesis 26:3–4
Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
Read in contextGenesis 48:4
and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’
Read in contextGenesis 13:14–17
After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
Read in contextJoshua 6:1–21
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
Read in contextGenesis 15:18
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
Read in contextExodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
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