Genesis 18:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed through him and shall bless themselves by him? [Gen. 12:2-3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Abraham will certainly become a great populous nation, and all the earth’s nations will be blessed because of him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ since he will become a great and very robust nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?

Genesis 18:18 Cross References

Genesis 26:4

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring,

Genesis 28:14

and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your offspring.

Psalm 72:17

May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun. May all nations be blessed in him; may they pronounce him happy.

Galatians 3:14

in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3:8

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would reckon as righteous the gentiles by faith, declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the gentiles shall be blessed in you.”

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,