Gen 28:3 | NETfull | STEP | May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

Genesis 28:3

3 May the sovereign God ^{▼▼ Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Gen 17:1.} bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! ^{▼▼ Heb “and make you fruitful and multiply you.” See Gen 17:6, 20 for similar terminology.} Then you will become ^{▼▼ The perfect verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here indicates consequence. The collocation הָיָה + preposition לְ (hayah + l^e) means “become.”} a large nation. ^{▼▼ Heb “an assembly of peoples.”}