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Genesis 17:4

“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

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ASV

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations.

KJV

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אֲנִ֕י'a.NiIH589 →
הִנֵּ֥הhi.Nehhere!H2009 →
בְרִיתִ֖יve.ri.Ticovenant myH1285 →
אִתָּ֑ךְ'i.Takh[is] with youH854 →
וְהָיִ֕יתָve.ha.Yi.taand you will becomeH1961 →
לְאַ֖בle.'Av<into> a father ofH1 →
הֲמ֥וֹןha.Mona multitude ofH1995 →
גּוֹיִֽם׃go.YimnationsH1471 →

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Genesis 17:6I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.Genesis 35:11And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.Romans 4:11–18And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.Genesis 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.Galatians 3:28–29There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Genesis 25:23and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”Genesis 32:12But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”Genesis 16:10Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”Genesis 36:1–43This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).Genesis 25:1–18Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,Genesis 13:16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.Genesis 48:19But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”Exodus 6:4I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.Genesis 6:18But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.Numbers 1:1–54On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:Numbers 26:1–65After the plague had ended, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,

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About Genesis

The Creation of Light — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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