20 Bible Verses about Returning to their land

And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai. This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."

After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

The Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you."

Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord, you said to me, 'Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.'

Then Israel said to Joseph, "I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.

So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, "Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.

Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and so Jethro went to his own land.

But Hobab said to him, "I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred."

And now, I am about to go back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future."

I will say, 'My dear children of Israel, keep in mind the road you took when you were carried off. Mark off in your minds the landmarks. Make a mental note of telltale signs marking the way back. Return, my dear children of Israel. Return to these cities of yours.

Balaam got up and departed and returned to his home, and Balak also went his way.

So all these Judeans returned to the land of Judah from the places where they had been scattered. They came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. Thus they harvested a large amount of wine and dates and figs.

I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and will bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin; there they will be an insignificant kingdom.

"I (says the Lord) will strengthen the kingdom of Judah and deliver the people of Joseph and will bring them back because of my compassion for them. They will be as though I had never rejected them, for I am the Lord their God and therefore I will hear them.

I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to the lands of Gilead and Lebanon, for there will not be enough room for them in their own land.

Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places -- they and their children will sprout forth and return.

In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.