Genesis 17:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And I will make you exceedingly fruitful and I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Common English Bible

⁶ I will make you very fertile. I will produce nations from you, and kings will come from you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And I will cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And I will make thee increase, exceedingly: and I will make nations of thee; and kings shall come out of thee.

Genesis 17:6 Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her and also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; I will bless him and make him fruitful and exceedingly numerous; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 17:4

“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations.

Genesis 26:22

He moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it, so he called it Rehoboth, saying, “Now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and numerous, that you may become a company of peoples.

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.

Genesis 41:52

The second he named Ephraim, “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortunes.”

Genesis 47:27

Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen, and they gained possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.

Genesis 48:3

And Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and he blessed me

Genesis 48:4

and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers; I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for a perpetual holding.’

Ezra 4:20

Jerusalem has had mighty kings who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.

Leviticus 26:9

I will look with favor upon you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will maintain my covenant with you.