Genesis 26:3 meaning and explanation

Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

Genesis 26:3, Berean Standard Bible

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God speaks these words to Isaac during a famine, when going down to Egypt for food would have seemed the obvious move, as Abram had done before. Instead God tells him to stay in Canaan as a resident foreigner, with no claim of his own, and to trust the promise.

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