I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
Genesis 17:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of 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 as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.*
As for Yishma'el, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
*As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rechovot. He said, *For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.*
May El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
God said to him, *I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
The name of the second, he called Efrayim: *For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.*
Yisra'el lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
Ya`akov said to Yosef, *El Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in the land of Kena`an, and blessed me,
and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'
There have been mighty kings also over Yerushalayim, who have ruled over all [the country] beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.
*'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.