‘I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
Genesis 17:2 - New International Version (Anglicised) Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.’ 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 make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates –
He took him outside and said, ‘Look up at the sky and count the stars – if indeed you can count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘So shall your offspring be.’
I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
‘I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you
But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To this day he has been unwilling to destroy them or banish them from his presence.
The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.