20 Bible Verses about Returning to their land

He traveled from place to place from the Negev until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier. This was where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of Jehovah.

They shall come back here in the fourth generation. The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.

When Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban: Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country.

Jehovah said to Jacob: Go back to the land of your ancestors and to your relatives. I will be with you.

Then Jacob prayed: O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, you said to me: 'Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you.'

Then Israel said to Joseph: I am about to die. God will be with you. He will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

After the funeral, Joseph, his brothers, and everyone else returned to Egypt.

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

you must pay enough to make up for what the present owner will lose on it before the next Year of Celebration, when the property would become yours again.

Moses said good-bye to Jethro, and Jethro went back home.

Hobab answered: No, I am going back to my native land.

Now I am going to my people. Come along and I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.

Set up road marks. Place guideposts! Direct your mind to the highway, the way by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel. Return to these your cities.

Balaam got up and went back home. Balak also went his way.

So all the Jews returned from all the places where they had been scattered. They came to Judah and to Gedaliah at Mizpah. They gathered a large harvest of grapes and summer fruit.

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

I will strengthen the house of Judah. I will save the house of Joseph and I will bring them back. I will have mercy upon them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off. For I am Jehovah, their God, and I will hear them!

I will once again bring them out of the land of Egypt. I will gather them out of Assyria. I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon and a place will not be found for them.

I will sow them among the peoples! They will remember me in far countries. They will live with their children and return.

If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they came, they would have had opportunity to return.