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“I will look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people. And I will fulfill my covenant with you.

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I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations, and kings will be among them!

“I will confirm my covenant with you and your descendants[a] after you, from generation to generation. This is the everlasting covenant: I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

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  1. 17:7 Hebrew seed; also in 17:7b, 8, 9, 10, 19.

38 How he blesses them!
    They raise large families there,
    and their herds of livestock increase.

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62 And I will reaffirm my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.

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23 You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors.

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“Come to me with your ears wide open.
    Listen, and you will find life.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you.
    I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.

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Though the Lord is great, he cares for the humble,
    but he keeps his distance from the proud.

Though I am surrounded by troubles,
    you will protect me from the anger of my enemies.
You reach out your hand,
    and the power of your right hand saves me.

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May God Almighty[a] bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations!

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  1. 28:3 Hebrew El-Shaddai.

Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.

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11 “The Lord will give you prosperity in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, blessing you with many children, numerous livestock, and abundant crops.

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72 He has been merciful to our ancestors
    by remembering his sacred covenant—

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The Lord said, “I have made a covenant with David, my chosen servant.
    I have sworn this oath to him:

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Your children and your crops
    will be blessed.
The offspring of your herds and flocks
    will be blessed.

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And I reaffirmed my covenant with them. Under its terms, I promised to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as foreigners.

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25 He looked down on the people of Israel and knew it was time to act.[a]

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  1. 2:25 Or and acknowledged his obligation to help them.

But their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and grandchildren. In fact, they multiplied so greatly that they became extremely powerful and filled the land.

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14 Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

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I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars of the sky, and I will give them all these lands. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

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20 As for Ishmael, I will bless him also, just as you have asked. I will make him extremely fruitful and multiply his descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

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18 But I will confirm my covenant with you. So enter the boat—you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

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This covenant will not be like the one
    I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
    and led them out of the land of Egypt.
They did not remain faithful to my covenant,
    so I turned my back on them, says the Lord.

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20 I replied, “The God of heaven will help us succeed. We, his servants, will start rebuilding this wall. But you have no share, legal right, or historic claim in Jerusalem.”

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23 But the Lord was gracious and merciful to the people of Israel, and they were not totally destroyed. He pitied them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day he still has not completely destroyed them or banished them from his presence.

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