Genesis 17:8

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.”

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22	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.
23	tn Or “as an eternal.”