Genesis 48:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ So thy two sons who were born to thee in the land of Egypt before I came hither to thee, shall be mine: Ephraim and Manasses shall be reputed to me as Ruben and Simeon.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make you a multitude of people and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession. [Gen. 28:13-22; 35:6-15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples, and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

Common English Bible

⁴ and said to me, ‘I am about to give you many children, to increase your numbers, and to make you a large group of peoples. I will give this land to your descendants following you as an enduring possession.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And he said: 'I will increase and multiply you, and I will make you influential among the people. And I will give this land to you, and to your offspring after you, as an everlasting possession.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And he said: I will cause thee to increase and multiply, and I will make of thee a multitude of people. And I will give this land to thee, and to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

Genesis 48:4 Cross References

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 17:13

3 And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

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 17:8

And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

Genesis 22:17

7 I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the seashore: thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4

And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 28:3

And give the blessings of Abrabam to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he promised to thy grandfather.

Genesis 32:12

3 And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau.

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 46:3

I will go down with thee thither, and will bring thee back again from thence: Joseph also shall put his hands upon thy eyes.

Genesis 47:27

8 And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life came to a hundred and forty-seven years.

Psalm 127:3

May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayest thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

Exodus 1:11

3 And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:

Exodus 1:7

And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.

Ezekiel 37:25

The Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans with them, all with shields and helmets.

Leviticus 26:9

4 But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments,

Deuteronomy 32:8

3 He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,