I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
Genesis 12:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you [with abundant increase of favors] and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be a blessing [dispensing good to others]. American Standard Version (1901) and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing: Common English Bible I will make of you a great nation and will bless you. I will make your name respected, and you will be a blessing. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name: and thou shalt be blessed. |
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
He took him outside and said, ‘Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘Your offspring will be that numerous.’
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father twelve tribal leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.
Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.
For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. This is how the Lord will fulfil to Abraham what he promised him.’
So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when he demolished the cities where Lot had lived.
Abraham was now old, getting on in years, , and the Lord had blessed him in everything.
‘The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.
After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring,
May peoples serve you and nations bow in homage to you. Be master over your relatives; may your mother’s sons bow in homage to you. Those who curse you will be cursed, and those who bless you will be blessed.
Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out towards the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
God also said to him, ‘I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you, and kings will descend from you. ,
God said, ‘I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have destroyed all your enemies before you. I will make a great name for you like that of the greatest on the earth.
‘The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, “May your God make the name of Solomon more well known than your name, and may he make his throne greater than your throne.” Then the king bowed in worship on his bed.
Your wickedness affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness, a son of man.
But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous so that the land was filled with them.
Now leave me alone, so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.’
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was only one; I blessed him and made him many.
I will make them and the area around my hill a blessing: I will send down showers in their season; they will be showers of blessing.
You will show loyalty to Jacob and faithful love to Abraham, as you swore to our ancestors from days long ago.
As you have been a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Don’t be afraid; let your hands be strong.’
I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.’
Then God said to Balaam, ‘You are not to go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.’
I have indeed received a command to bless; since he has blessed, I cannot change it.
And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith , while still uncircumcised. This was to make him the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, so that righteousness may be credited to them also.
The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, so that we could receive the promised Spirit through faith.
You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as a foreigner. There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.