17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan—the land where you are now residing22—to you and your descendants after you as a permanent23 possession. I will be their God.”
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.