17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing 1 – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent 2 possession. I will be their God.”
1 tn The verbal root is גּוּר (gur, “to sojourn, to reside temporarily,” i.e., as a resident alien). It is the land in which Abram resides, but does not yet possess as his very own.