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 17:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I will make you extremely fruitful and will make nations and kings come from you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will make you exceedingly fruitful and I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. American Standard Version (1901) And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. Common English Bible I will make you very fertile. I will produce nations from you, and kings will come from you. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will make thee increase, exceedingly: and I will make nations of thee; and kings shall come out of thee. |
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.
I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her.’
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.
‘As for me, here is my covenant with you: you will become the father of many nations.
He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, ‘For now the Lord has made space for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.’
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.
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. ,
And the second son he named Ephraim and said, ‘God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.’
Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property in it and became fruitful and very numerous.
Jacob said to Joseph, ‘God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
He said to me, “I will make you fruitful and numerous; I will make many nations come from you, and I will give this land as a permanent possession to your future descendants.”
Powerful kings have also ruled over Jerusalem and exercised authority over the whole region west of the River Euphrates, and tribute, duty, and land tax were paid to them.
‘I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm my covenant with you.