I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Genesis 22:17 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In blessing I will bless you and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore. And your Seed (Heir) will possess the gate of His enemies, [Heb. 6:13, 14; 11:12.] American Standard Version (1901) that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; Common English Bible I will bless you richly and I will give you countless descendants, as many as the stars in the sky and as the grains of sand on the seashore. They will conquer their enemies’ cities. Catholic Public Domain Version I will bless you, and I will multiply your offspring like the stars of heaven, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the seashore. Thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies. |
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
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.
The LORD brought him outside, and said, *Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.* He said to Avram, *So shall your seed be.*
I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
They blessed Rivka, and said to her, *Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them.*
It happened after the death of Avraham that God blessed Yitzchak, his son. Yitzchak lived by Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i.
The LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, *I am the God of Avraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Avraham's sake.*
I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
May El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
and give you the blessing of Avraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Avraham.*
You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'*
He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esav, his brother:
But I counsel that all Yisra'el be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Be'er-Sheva, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.
Yehudah and Yisra'el were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
King Shlomo made a navy of ships in `Etzyon-Gever, which is beside Elot, on the shore of the Sea of Suf, in the land of Edom.
But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said he would increase Yisra'el like the stars of the sky.
Now, LORD God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
Their children also multiplied you as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you did say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Remember Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yisra'el, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'*
your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like the grains of it: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
and gave them this land, which you did swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.
Yet the number of the children of Yisra'el will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'
*Say to your brothers, 'My people!' and to your sisters, 'My loved one!'
For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Yehudah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Yerushalayim.
For the promise to Avraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Yeshaiyahu cries concerning Yisra'el, *If the number of the children of Yisra'el are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah;
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.
The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
There shall cleave nothing of the devoted thing to your hand; that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
when you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his mitzvot which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.
saying, *Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.*
The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, *The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Messiah. He will reign forever and ever!*