Genesis 12:2

Catholic Public Domain Version

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed.

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

And I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If any man is able to number the dust of the earth, he will be able to number your offspring as well.

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him outside, and he said to him, "Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can." And he said to him, "So also will your offspring be."

Genesis 17:20

Likewise, concerning Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless and enlarge him, and I will multiply him greatly. He will produce twelve leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 18:18

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

Genesis 18:19

For I know that he will instruct his sons, and his household after him, to keep to the way of the Lord, and to act with judgment and justice, so that, for the sake of Abraham, the Lord may bring about all the things that he has spoken to him."

Genesis 19:29

For when God overthrew the cities of that region, remembering Abraham, he freed Lot from the overthrow of the cities, in which he had dwelt.

Genesis 24:1

Now Abraham was old and of many days. And the Lord had blessed him in all things.

Genesis 24:35

And the Lord has blessed my lord greatly, and he has become great. And he has given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, men servants and women servants, camels and donkeys.

Genesis 25:11

And after his passing, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near the well named 'of the One who lives and who sees.'

Genesis 26:3

and sojourn in it, and I will be with you, and I will bless you. For to you and to your offspring I will give all these regions, completing the oath that I promised to Abraham your father.

Genesis 26:4

And I will multiply your offspring like the stars of heaven. And I will give to your posterity all these regions. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 27:29

And may the peoples serve you, and may the tribes reverence you. May you be the lord of your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down before you. Whoever curses you, may he be cursed, and whoever blesses you, may he be filled with blessings."

Genesis 28:14

And your offspring will be like the dust of the earth. You will spread abroad to the West, and to the East, and to the North, and to the Meridian. And in you and in your offspring, all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed.

Genesis 35:11

and he said to him: "I am Almighty God: increase and multiply. Tribes and peoples of nations will be from you, and kings will go forth from your loins.

Genesis 46:3

God said to him: "I am the most strong God of your father. Do not be afraid. Descend into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

2 Samuel 7:9

And I have been with you everywhere that you walked. And I have slain all your enemies before your face. And I have made you a great name, beside the name of the great ones who are upon the earth.

1 Kings 1:47

And the servants of the king, entering, have blessed our lord king David, saying: 'May God amplify the name of Solomon above your name, and may he magnify his throne above your throne.' And the king reverenced from his bed.

Job 35:8

Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man.

Exodus 1:7

the sons of Israel increased, and they multiplied like seedlings. And having been strengthened exceedingly, they filled the land.

Exodus 32:10

Release me, so that my fury may be enraged against them, and I may destroy them, and then I will make of you a great nation."

Isaiah 51:2

Pay attention to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who bore you. For I called him alone, and I blessed him, and I multiplied him.

Ezekiel 34:26

And I will make them a blessing all around my hill. And I will send the rain in due time; there will be showers of blessing.

Micah 7:20

You will give the truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which you swore to our fathers from the ancient days.

Zechariah 8:13

And this shall be: just as you were a curse among the Gentiles, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid. Let your hands be strengthened.

Numbers 14:12

Therefore, I will strike them with a pestilence, and so I will consume them. But you I will make the ruler over a great nation, and one which is mightier than this one."

Numbers 22:12

And God said to Balaam, "Do not go with them, and do not curse the people, for they are blessed."

Numbers 23:20

I was led here to bless, and I have no strength to hinder the blessing.

Romans 4:11

For he received the sign of circumcision as a symbol of the justice of that faith which exists apart from circumcision, so that he might be the father of all those who believe while uncircumcised, so that it might also be reputed to them unto justice,

Galatians 3:14

This was so that the blessing of Abraham might reach the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, in order that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3:7

Therefore, know that those who are of faith, these are the sons of Abraham.

Deuteronomy 26:5

And you shall say, in the sight of the Lord your God: 'The Syrian pursued my father, who descended into Egypt, and he sojourned there in a very small number, and he increased into a great and strong nation and into an innumerable multitude.