20 Bible Verses about Returning to their land

He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, to the place of the altar which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.

Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

Now it came about when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country.

Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,’

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

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

Then Moses departed and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property.

Then Moses bade his father-in-law farewell, and he went his way into his own land.

But he said to him, “I will not come, but rather will go to my own land and relatives.”

And now, behold, I am going to my people; come, and I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”

“Set up for yourself roadmarks,
Place for yourself guideposts;
Direct your mind to the highway,
The way by which you went.
Return, O virgin of Israel,
Return to these your cities.

Then Balaam arose and departed and returned to his place, and Balak also went his way.

Then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven away and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered in wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom.

“I will strengthen the house of Judah,
And I will save the house of Joseph,
And I will bring them back,
Because I have had compassion on them;
And they will be as though I had not rejected them,
For I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.

“I will bring them back from the land of Egypt
And gather them from Assyria;
And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon
Until no room can be found for them.

“When I scatter them among the peoples,
They will remember Me in far countries,
And they with their children will live and come back.

And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.