Genesis 17:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come forth 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 descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her; I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

Genesis 17:20

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

Genesis 17:4

“Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.

Genesis 26:22

And he moved from there and dug another well, and over that they did not quarrel; so he called its name Rehoboth, saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”

Genesis 28:3

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

Genesis 35:11

And 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 name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 47:27

Thus Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land 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 blessed me,

Genesis 48:4

and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession.’

Ezra 4:20

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

Leviticus 26:9

And I will have regard for you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and will confirm my covenant with you.