When they were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it,

当时，他们人丁有限，数目稀少，并且在那地为寄居的。

当时，他们人丁有限，数目稀少，在那地寄居。

当时，他们人丁有限，数目稀少，在那地寄居。

那时他们人丁稀少，在当地寄居。

那时，他们人数不多，实在很少，而且是在那地寄居的。

那时他们人数稀少，实在很少，在那地是寄居的；

當時，他們人丁有限，數目稀少，並且在那地為寄居的。

當時，他們人丁有限，數目稀少，在那地寄居。

當時，他們人丁有限，數目稀少，在那地寄居。

那時他們人丁稀少，在當地寄居。

那時，他們人數不多，實在很少，而且是在那地寄居的。

當時他們人數有限，實在很少，又是在那地做寄居者；

那時他們人數稀少，實在很少，在那地是寄居的；

當時人寡、其數無幾、旅於斯土兮、

當時人寡、其數無幾、為旅於斯土兮、

當時彼尚人寡、其數無幾、在斯地寄居為旅、

當彼時。人可數。在迦南。如客旅。

When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,

At first there weren’t very many of God’s people. There were only a few, and they were strangers in the land.

He said this when they were few in number, a tiny group of strangers in Canaan.

When they were few in number, very few indeed, and resident aliens in Canaan,

When they were only a few people in number, Very few, and strangers in it.

When they were few in number, Indeed very few, and strangers in it.

When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

When they were few in number, very few indeed, and temporary residents in Canaan,

When they were[ but] a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident aliens within it,

when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,“ You have brought trouble on me by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

“ I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

“ And you shall make response before the Lord your God,‘ A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.

“ Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying,‘ Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.’Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?You rely on the sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?Say this to them, Thus says the Lord God: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and her proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through.Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.“ As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother,‘ Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.’And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.When this comes— and come it will!— then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.

Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”