Genesis 17:6

New American Bible - revised edition

I will make you exceedingly fertile; I will make nations of you; kings will stem from you.

Cross References

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 17:16

I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. Her also will I bless; she will give rise to nations, and rulers of peoples will issue from her.

Genesis 17:20

Now as for Ishmael, I will heed you: I hereby bless him. I will make him fertile and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve chieftains, and I will make of him a great nation.

Genesis 17:4

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

Genesis 26:22

So he moved on from there and dug still another well, but over this one they did not argue. He named it Rehoboth, and said, “Because the Lord has now given us ample room, we shall flourish in the land.”

Genesis 28:3

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

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 41:52

and the second he named Ephraim, meaning, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 47:27

Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. There they acquired holdings, were fertile, and multiplied greatly.

Genesis 48:3

Jacob then said to Joseph: “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessing me,

Genesis 48:4

he said, ‘I will make you fertile and multiply you and make you into an assembly of peoples, and I will give this land to your descendants after you as a permanent possession.’

Ezra 4:20

Powerful kings once ruled in Jerusalem who controlled all West-of-Euphrates, and taxes, tributes, and tolls were paid to them.

Leviticus 26:9

I will look with favor upon you, and make you fruitful and numerous, as I carry out my covenant with you.