Genesis 17:6

New International Reader's Version

I will greatly increase the number of your children after you. Nations and kings will come from you.

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make them like the dust of the earth. Can dust be counted? If it can, then your family can be counted.

Genesis 17:16

I will give her my blessing. You can be sure that I will give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations. Kings of nations will come from her.”

Genesis 17:20

I have heard what you said about Ishmael. I will surely bless him. I will make his family very large. He will be the father of 12 rulers. And I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 17:4

“This is my covenant with you. You will be the father of many nations.

Genesis 26:22

Isaac moved on from there and dug another well. But no one argued about that one. So he named it Rehoboth. He said, “Now the Lord has given us room. Now we will be successful in the land.”

Genesis 28:3

May the Mighty God bless you. May he give you children. May he make your family larger until you become a community of nations.

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am the Mighty God. Have children so that there will be many of you. You will become the father of a nation and a community of nations. Your later family will include kings.

Genesis 41:52

He named the second son Ephraim. That’s because he said, “God has given me children in the land where I’ve suffered so much.”

Genesis 47:27

The people of Israel lived in Egypt in the area of Goshen. They received property there. They had children and so became many.

Genesis 48:3

Jacob said to Joseph, “The Mighty God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan. He blessed me there.

Genesis 48:4

He said to me, ‘I am going to give you children. I will make your family very large. I will make you a community of nations. And I will give this land to your children after you. It will belong to them forever.’

Ezra 4:20

Jerusalem has had powerful kings. Some of them ruled over everything west of the Euphrates. Taxes, gifts and fees were paid to them.

Leviticus 26:9

“ ‘I will bless you. I will give you many children so that there will be many of you. And I will be faithful to the covenant I made with you.