Genesis 28:3

Good News Translation

May Almighty God bless your marriage and give you many children, so that you will become the father of many nations!

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

blessed them, and said, “Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals.

Genesis 13:16

I am going to give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all; it would be as easy to count all the specks of dust on earth!

Genesis 17:20

I have heard your request about Ishmael, so I will bless him and give him many children and many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make a great nation of his descendants.

Genesis 24:60

And they gave Rebecca their blessing in these words: “May you, sister, become the mother of millions! May your descendants conquer the cities of their enemies!”

Genesis 26:24

That night the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid; I am with you. I will bless you and give you many descendants because of my promise to my servant Abraham.”

Genesis 26:4

I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give them all this territory. All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants.

Genesis 27:33

Isaac began to tremble and shake all over, and he asked, “Who was it, then, who killed an animal and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came. I gave him my final blessing, and so it is his forever.”

Genesis 35:11

And God said to him, “I am Almighty God. Have many children. Nations will be descended from you, and you will be the ancestor of kings.

Genesis 41:52

He also said, “God has given me children in the land of my trouble”; so he named his second son Ephraim.

Genesis 43:14

May Almighty God cause the man to have pity on you, so that he will give Benjamin and your other brother back to you. As for me, if I must lose my children, I must lose them.”

Genesis 48:3

Jacob said to Joseph, “Almighty God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

Genesis 48:4

He said to me, ‘I will give you many children, so that your descendants will become many nations; I will give this land to your descendants as their possession forever.’”

Genesis 49:25

It is your father's God who helps you, The Almighty God who blesses you With blessings of rain from above And of deep waters from beneath the ground, Blessings of many cattle and children,

Genesis 9:1

God blessed Noah and his sons and said, “Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth.

Psalm 127:1

If the Lord does not build the house, the work of the builders is useless; if the Lord does not protect the city, it does no good for the sentries to stand guard.

Psalm 127:3

Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a real blessing.

Exodus 1:7

but their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and became so numerous and strong that Egypt was filled with them.

Exodus 6:3

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as Almighty God, but I did not make myself known to them by my holy name, the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:18

I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Revelation 21:22

I did not see a temple in the city, because its temple is the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb.

Ruth 2:4

Some time later Boaz himself arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the workers. “The Lord be with you!” he said. “The Lord bless you!” they answered.