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Genesis 17:8
New English Translation
Genesis 17:8
New English Translation
8 I will give the whole land of Canaan—the land where you are now residing[a]—to you and your descendants after you as a permanent[b] possession. I will be their God.”
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- Genesis 17:8 tn The verbal root is גּוּר (gur, “to sojourn, to reside temporarily,” i.e., as a resident foreigner). It is the land in which Abram resides, but does not yet possess as his very own.
- Genesis 17:8 tn Or “as an eternal.”
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