I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Genesis 17:2 - New Revised Standard Version And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous.” 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 of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and numerous, that you may become a company of peoples.
“As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you,
But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them; he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them; nor has he banished them from his presence until now.
The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes his covenant known to them.
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;