Genesis 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.”

Ge 12:7; Ge 13:15,17; Ge 15:7-21; Ge 23:4; Ge 28:4; Ge 48:4; Ex 6:7; Ex 21:6; Ex 31:16,17; Ex 40:15; Le 16:34; Le 26:12; Nu 25:13; De 4:37; De 14:2; De 26:18; De 29:13; De 32:8; 2Sa 23:5; Ps 103:17; Ps 105:9,11; Heb 9:15

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.

² tn Or “as an eternal.”