Genesis 12:2
2 aAnd 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 13:15-16
15for all the land that you see I will give bto you and cto your offspring forever. 16 dI will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.Genesis 18:18
18seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be eblessed in him?Genesis 22:17
17I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring fas the stars of heaven and gas the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess hthe gate of his ▼▼Or their
enemies, Genesis 28:14
14Your offspring shall be like jthe dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and kyour offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.Genesis 35:11
11And God said to him, l“I am God Almighty: ▼▼Hebrew El Shaddai
be nfruitful and multiply. oA nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body. ▼▼Hebrew from your loins
Genesis 47:27
27Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, qin the land of Goshen. rAnd they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.Exodus 1:7-10
7 sBut the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.Pharaoh Oppresses Israel
8Now there arose a new king over Egypt, twho did not know Joseph. 9And he said to his people, “Behold, uthe people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. 10 vCome, wlet us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”Deuteronomy 1:10
10The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, xyou are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.
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