Genesis 17:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ 6 And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shell become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And I will bless her and give you a son also by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ I will bless her and even give you a son from her. I will bless her so that she will become nations, and kings of peoples will come from her.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And I will bless her, and from her I will give you a son, whom I will bless, and he will be among the nations, and the kings of the peoples will rise from him."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless: and he shell become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

Genesis 17:16 Cross References

Genesis 1:28

8 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

Genesis 15:4

And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir.

Genesis 17:15

5 God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

Genesis 17:19

9 And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

Genesis 17:6

And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Genesis 21:1

And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.

Genesis 24:60

0 Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands, and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 25:23

3 And he answering said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.

Genesis 35:11

2 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Genesis 36:31

2 Bela the son of Beer, and the name of his city Denaba.

Isaiah 49:23

The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back.

Romans 9:9

7 For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

Galatians 4:23

Stand fast, and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

1 Peter 3:6

5 But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you.