Genesis 35:12
10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
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.
13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
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
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
Read in contextGenesis 28:13
And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
Read in contextGenesis 26:3–4
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Read in contextGenesis 48:4
And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
Read in contextGenesis 13:14–17
And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
Read in contextJoshua 6:1–21
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Read in contextGenesis 15:18
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Read in contextExodus 3:8
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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