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Summary
When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
And strangers
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Bible References
A few
Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smit
Deuteronomy 7:7
LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people, for ye were the fewest of all peoples,
Deuteronomy 26:5
And thou shall answer and say before LORD thy God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number. And he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Isaiah 51:2
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you. For when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
Ezekiel 33:24
Son of man, those who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
And strangers
Genesis 17:8
And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Acts 7:5
And he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep. And he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, although there was no child by him.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he lived alien in the land of promise as a foreigner, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise.
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Genesis 13:15
For all the land which thou see, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed forever.