“‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers,(A) and I will keep my covenant(B) with you.

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I will make you very fruitful;(A) I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.(B) I will establish my covenant(C) as an everlasting covenant(D) between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God(E) and the God of your descendants after you.(F)

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38 he blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased,(A)
    and he did not let their herds diminish.(B)

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62 So I will establish my covenant(A) with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.(B)

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23 You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky,(A) and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess.

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Give ear and come to me;
    listen,(A) that you may live.(B)
I will make an everlasting covenant(C) with you,
    my faithful love(D) promised to David.(E)

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Though the Lord is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly;(A)
    though lofty, he sees them(B) from afar.
Though I walk(C) in the midst of trouble,
    you preserve my life.(D)
You stretch out your hand(E) against the anger of my foes;(F)
    with your right hand(G) you save me.(H)

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May God Almighty[a](A) bless(B) you and make you fruitful(C) and increase your numbers(D) until you become a community of peoples.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 28:3 Hebrew El-Shaddai

‘Call(A) to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable(B) things you do not know.’

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11 The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock(A) and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.(B)

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72 to show mercy to our ancestors(A)
    and to remember his holy covenant,(B)

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You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
    I have sworn to David my servant,

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The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.(A)

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I also established my covenant(A) with them to give them the land(B) of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.(C)

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25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned(A) about them.

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but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers(A) and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.

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14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you(A) will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south.(B) All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 28:14 Or will use your name and the name of your offspring in blessings (see 48:20)

I will make your descendants(A) as numerous as the stars in the sky(B) and will give them all these lands,(C) and through your offspring[a] all nations on earth will be blessed,[b](D)

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  1. Genesis 26:4 Or seed
  2. Genesis 26:4 Or and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings (see 48:20)

20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers.(A) He will be the father of twelve rulers,(B) and I will make him into a great nation.(C)

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18 But I will establish my covenant with you,(A) and you will enter the ark(B)—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

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It will not be like the covenant
    I made with their ancestors(A)
when I took them by the hand
    to lead them out of Egypt,
because they did not remain faithful to my covenant,
    and I turned away from them,
declares the Lord.

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20 I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding,(A) but as for you, you have no share(B) in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.”

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23 But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of his covenant(A) with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To this day he has been unwilling to destroy(B) them or banish them from his presence.(C)

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