Genesis 48:4

New American Bible - revised edition

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.’

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 17:13

Yes, both the houseborn slaves and those acquired with money must be circumcised. Thus my covenant will be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.

Genesis 17:6

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

Genesis 17:8

I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are now residing as aliens, the whole land of Canaan, as a permanent possession; and I will be their God.

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 26:4

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and in your descendants all the nations of the earth will find blessing—

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 46:3

Then he said: I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation.

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.

Psalm 127:3

Certainly sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb, a reward.

Exodus 1:11

Accordingly, they set supervisors over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. Thus they had to build for Pharaoh the garrison cities of Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1:7

But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific. They multiplied and became so very numerous that the land was filled with them. The Oppression.

Ezekiel 37:25

They shall live on the land I gave to Jacob my servant, the land where their ancestors lived; they shall live on it always, they, their children, and their children’s children, with David my servant as their prince forever.

Leviticus 26:9

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

Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High allotted each nation its heritage, when he separated out human beings, He set up the boundaries of the peoples after the number of the divine beings;