Genesis 48:4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers; I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for a perpetual holding.’

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

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

Genesis 17:13

Both the slave born in your house and the one bought with your money must be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.

Genesis 17:6

I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.

Genesis 17:8

And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding; and I will be their God.”

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,

Genesis 26:4

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and will give to your offspring all these lands; and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring,

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and numerous, that you may become a company of peoples.

Genesis 32:12

Yet you have said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their number.’ ”

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.

Genesis 46:3

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

Genesis 47:27

Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen; and they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.

Psalm 127:3

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.

Exodus 1:7

But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Ezekiel 37:25

They shall live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your ancestors lived; they and their children and their children's children shall live there forever; and my servant David shall be their prince forever.

Leviticus 26:9

I will look with favor upon you and make you fruitful and multiply you; and I will maintain my covenant with you.

Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;