“As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.

And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines many days.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors.

So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him.

Then they sent the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father and said, “We have found this. Do you know whether it is your son’s tunic or not?”

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

And Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are many now, and you make them rest from their labor!”

And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze at the Lord, and many of them perish.

You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.

They came, both men and women, as many as had a willing heart, and brought earrings and nose rings, rings and necklaces, all jewelry of gold, that is, every man who made an offering of gold to the Lord.

Whatever crawls on its belly, whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet among all creeping things that creep on the earth—these you shall not eat, for they are an abomination.

‘If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her customary impurity, or if it runs beyond her usual time of impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her customary impurity. She shall be unclean.

If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall repay the price of his redemption from the money with which he was bought.

Even when the cloud continued long, many days above the tabernacle, the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord and did not journey.

And when it rested, he said: “Return, O Lord, To the many thousands of Israel.”

and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many;

Then he said, “You shall not pass through.” So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand.

So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.

And Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because they were many, and Moab was sick with dread because of the children of Israel.

He shall pour water from his buckets, And his seed shall be in many waters. “His king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.

And the cities which you will give shall be from the possession of the children of Israel; from the larger tribe you shall give many, from the smaller you shall give few. Each shall give some of its cities to the Levites, in proportion to the inheritance that each receives.”

“So you remained in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you spent there.

The Desert Years

“Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days.