Exodus 6:4
 Exodus 6:4 
New International Version (©2011)
I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.

New Living Translation (©2007)
And I reaffirmed my covenant with them. Under its terms, I promised to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as foreigners.

English Standard Version (©2001)
I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as foreigners.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as resident aliens for a time.

NET Bible (©2006)
I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I even made a promise to give them Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers.

American King James Version
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

American Standard Version
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of Chanaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers.

Darby Bible Translation
And I established also my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were sojourners.

English Revised Version
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers.

World English Bible
I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

Young's Literal Translation
and also I have established My covenant with them, to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they have sojourned;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:1-9 We are most likely to prosper in attempts to glorify God, and to be useful to men, when we learn by experience that we can do nothing of ourselves; when our whole dependence is placed on him, and our only expectation is from him. Moses had been expecting what God would do; but now he shall see what he will do. God would now be known by his name Jehovah, that is, a God performing what he had promised, and finishing his own work. God intended their happiness: I will take you to me for a people, a peculiar people, and I will be to you a God. More than this we need not ask, we cannot have, to make us happy. He intended his own glory: Ye shall know that I am the Lord. These good words, and comfortable words, should have revived the drooping Israelites, and have made them forget their misery; but they were so taken up with their troubles, that they did not heed God's promises. By indulging discontent and fretfulness, we deprive ourselves of the comfort we might have, both from God's word and from his providence, and go comfortless.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - I have established my covenant with them. Compare Genesis 15:18-21; Genesis 17:7, 8; Genesis 26:3; Genesis 28:13. The land of Canaan, in a narrow acceptation, reached "from Sidon unto Gaza" (Genesis 10:19); in a wider sense it included the whole tract between "the river of Egypt (Wady-el-Arish) and the great river, the river Euphrates" (Genesis 15:18). It was this larger tract which was promised by God to Abraham. The land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. Literally, "the land of their sojourns wherein they sojourned." (So Kalisch.) It was by permission of the lords of the soil - the Canaaaites, Perizzites, Hittites, and others, that Abraham and his descendants dwelt in Canaan to the time of Jacob's descent into Egypt. (See Genesis 12:6; Genesis 13:7; Genesis 23:7; Genesis 27:46, etc.)


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I have also established my covenant with them,.... With Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and with their posterity, so that it is sure and firm, and shall never be made null and void:

to give them the land of Canaan; or to their children, which were as themselves:

the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers; not being in actual possession of any part of it, but lived as pilgrims and strangers in it, as their posterity now did in another land not theirs; see Hebrews 11:9.


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God Promises Deliverance
3And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. 4And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. 5And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. …

Genesis 12:7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 15:18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates--
Genesis 17:4 "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
Genesis 17:7 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Genesis 26:3 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.
Genesis 26:4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,
Genesis 28:4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham."
Genesis 28:13 There above it stood the LORD, and he said: "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.
Numbers 10:29 Now Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place about which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel."