Bible Strands
Genesis 35:12
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.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Jacob after promising him fruitfulness and royal descendants, then departs from the location.
The words — The verb נָתַ֛תִּי (na.Ta.ti) means "I gave," establishing a past divine action, while אֶתְּנֶ֑/נָּה ('et.te.Ne./nah) means "I will give," projecting that same action forward.
The thread — The promise to transfer land to a patriarch and his offspring recurs in Genesis 12:7, Genesis 28:13, and Genesis 26:3.
Why it lands — The text asserts a direct divine guarantee of land inheritance for Jacob and his future lineage, requiring the reader to recognize the continuity of God's territorial promise across generations.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
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.
- Genesis 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.
- Genesis 26:3 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.
- Genesis 13:14 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,
- Genesis 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.’
- Genesis 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—
- Exodus 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.
- Joshua 6:1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
- Nehemiah 13:1 At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
- Genesis 28:3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.