Hebrews 11:15
Good News Translation
They did not keep thinking about the country they had left; if they had, they would have had the chance to return.

New Revised Standard Version
If they had been thinking of the land that they had left behind, they would have had opportunity to return.

Contemporary English Version
If they had been talking about the land where they had once lived, they could have gone back at any time.

New American Bible
If they had been thinking of the land from which they had come, they would have had opportunity to return.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And truly, if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they had doubtless, time to return.

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And truly, if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they had doubtless, time to return.

mindful.

Genesis 11:31 And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.

Genesis 12:10 And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.

Genesis 24:6-8 And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither. . . .

Genesis 31:18 And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac, his father, to the land of Chanaan.

Genesis 32:9-11 And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee. . . .

Context
The Faith of Abraham and Sarah
14For they that say these things do signify that they seek a country. 15And truly, if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they had doubtless, time to return. 16But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:4
But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.

Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither.

Hebrews 11:14
For they that say these things do signify that they seek a country.

Hebrews 11:14
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