Genesis 17:4 - Tree of Life Version

⁴ “For My part, because My covenant is with you, you will be the father of a multitude of nations.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ As for Me, behold, My covenant (solemn pledge) is with you, and you shall be the father of many nations.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations.

Common English Bible

⁴ “But me, my covenant is with you; you will be the ancestor of many nations.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And God said to him: "I AM, and my covenant is with you, and you will be the father of many nations.

Genesis 17:4 Cross References

Genesis 12:2

My heart’s desire is to make you into a great nation, to bless you, to make your name great so that you may be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your seed like the dust of the earth so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your seed could also be counted.

Genesis 16:10

Then the angel of Adonai said to her, “I will bountifully multiply your seed, and they will be too many to count.”

Genesis 22:17

I will richly bless you and bountifully multiply your seed like the stars of heaven, and like the sand that is on the seashore, and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

Genesis 25:23

Adonai said to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from your body will be separated. One people will be stronger than the other people, but the older will serve the younger.”

Genesis 28:3

Now may El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you will become an assembly of peoples.

Genesis 32:12

Deliver me, please, from my brother’s hand, from Esau’s hand, for I’m afraid of him that he’ll come and strike me—the mothers with the children.

Genesis 35:11

God also said to him: “I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assembly of nations will come from you. From your loins will come forth kings.

Genesis 48:19

But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will become great. But his younger brother will become greater than he and his seed will be the fullness of the nations.”

Exodus 6:4

I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage where they journeyed.