Genesis 47:27

Revised Standard Version CI

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

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.

Genesis 17:6

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

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves:

Genesis 28:14

and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves.

Genesis 34:10

You shall dwell with us; and the land shall be open to you; dwell and trade in it, and get property in it.”

Genesis 35:11

And 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 there make of you a great nation.

Genesis 47:11

Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Genesis 8:7

and sent forth a raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.

Genesis 8:9

but the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put forth his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.

Nehemiah 9:23

Thou didst multiply their descendants as the stars of heaven, and thou didst bring them into the land which thou hadst told their fathers to enter and possess.

Psalm 105:24

And the Lord made his people very fruitful, and made them stronger than their foes.

Psalm 107:38

By his blessing they multiply greatly; and he does not let their cattle decrease.

Exodus 1:12

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

Exodus 1:7

But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them.

Zechariah 10:8

“I will signal for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as many as of old.

Acts 7:17

“But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Deuteronomy 26:5

“And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.