I will build a great nation from you. I will bless you and make your name famous. People will use your name to bless other people.
Genesis 17:2 - Easy To Read Version If you do this, I will prepare an agreement between us. I will promise to make your people a great nation.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will make My covenant (solemn pledge) between Me and you and will multiply you exceedingly. American Standard Version (1901) And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. Common English Bible I will make a covenant between us and I will give you many, many descendants.” Catholic Public Domain Version And I will set my covenant between me and you. And I will multiply you very exceedingly." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly. |
I will build a great nation from you. I will bless you and make your name famous. People will use your name to bless other people.
I will make your people as many as the dust of the earth. If people could count all the dust on earth, then they could count your people.
So on that day, the Lord made a promise and an agreement with Abram. The Lord said, “I will give this land to your descendants. I will give them the land between the River of Egypt [88] and the great river Euphrates.
Then God led Abram outside. God said, “Look at the sky. See the many stars. There are so many you can’t count them. In the future, your family will be like that.”
I will truly bless you. I will give you many, many descendants, [126] as many as the stars in the sky. There will be as many people as sand on the seashore. And your people will live in cities that they take from their enemies.
I pray that God All-Powerful [162] will bless you and give you many children. I pray that you will become the father of a great nation.
“I now make my promise to you and to your people who will live after you.
But the Lord was kind to the Israelites. The Lord had mercy and turned to the Israelites. Why? Because of his Agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Lord would not destroy the Israelites or throw them away yet.
Remember the Agreement\par that the Lord made with Abraham.\par Remember his promise to Isaac.\par
The Lord tells his secrets to his followers.\par He teaches his Agreement {\cf2\super [153]} to them.\par
They are the people of Israel. {\cf2\super [73]} Those people (the Jews) are God’s chosen children. Those people have the glory of God and the agreements that God made between himself and his people. God gave them the law \{of Moses\} and the \{temple\} worship. And God gave his promises to those people (the Jews).