Genesis 48:4

Contemporary English Version 1995

and promised, “I will give you a large family with many descendants that will grow into a nation. And I am giving you this land that will belong to you and your family forever.”

Cross References

Genesis 17:8

I will give you and them the land in which you are now a foreigner. I will give the whole land of Canaan to your family forever, and I will be their God.

Deuteronomy 32:8

that God Most High gave land to every nation. He assigned a guardian angel to each of them,

Exodus 1:7

the people of Israel became so numerous that the whole region of Goshen was full of them.

Genesis 47:27

The people of Israel made their home in the land of Goshen, where they became prosperous and had large families.

Genesis 46:3

God said, “I am God, the same God your father worshiped. Don't be afraid to go to Egypt. I will give you so many descendants that one day they will become a nation.

Genesis 32:12

But you have promised that I would be a success and that someday it will be as hard to count my descendants as it is to count the grains of sand along the seashore.

Genesis 28:3

I pray that God All-Powerful will bless you with many descendants and let you become a great nation.

Genesis 26:4

I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all of this land. They will be a blessing to every nation on earth,

Genesis 22:17

“I will bless you and give you such a large family, that someday your descendants will be more numerous than the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the seashore. They will defeat their enemies and take over the cities where their enemies live.

Genesis 12:2

I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and be a blessing to others.

Exodus 1:11

The Egyptians put slave bosses in charge of the people of Israel and tried to wear them down with hard work. Those bosses forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses, where the king could store his supplies.

Leviticus 26:9

I will treat you with such kindness that your nation will grow strong, and I will also keep my promises to you.

Psalm 127:3

Children are a blessing and a gift from the Lord.

Genesis 17:6

I will give you a lot of descendants, and they will become great nations. Some of them will even be kings.