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Genesis 17:8
I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
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Hebrews 11:9
By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.
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1 Chronicles 29 15
For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.
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Psalms 119:19
I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!
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Leviticus 25:23
The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.
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Acts 7:5
He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.
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Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.
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Genesis 49:30
It is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought for a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.
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Hebrews 11:13-16
These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
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Ecclesiastes 6:3
Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years– even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity– even if he were to live forever– I would say,“ A stillborn child is better off than he is!”
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Ecclesiastes 12:5
and they are afraid of heights and the dangers in the street; the almond blossoms grow white, and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry shrivels up– because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets–
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Genesis 50:13
His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the field Abraham purchased as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
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1 Peter 2 11
Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
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Genesis 47:9
Jacob said to Pharaoh,“ All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”
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Psalms 105:12-13
When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident aliens within it,they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another.
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Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
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Job 30:23
I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
