Genesis 17:4

New American Bible - revised edition

For my part, here is my covenant with you: you are to become the father of a multitude of nations.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth; if anyone could count the dust of the earth, your descendants too might be counted.

Genesis 16:10

I will make your descendants so numerous,” added the Lord’s angel, “that they will be too many to count.”

Genesis 22:17

I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies,

Genesis 25:23

and the Lord answered her: Two nations are in your womb, two peoples are separating while still within you; But one will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and make you fertile, multiply you that you may become an assembly of peoples.

Genesis 32:12

Save me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau! Otherwise I fear that he will come and strike me down and the mothers with the children.

Genesis 35:11

Then God said to him: I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will stem from you, and kings will issue from your loins.

Genesis 48:19

But his father refused. “I know it, son,” he said, “I know. That one too shall become a people, and he too shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall surpass him, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”

Exodus 6:4

I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they were residing as aliens.