Genesis 17:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.”
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““As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.”
King James Version · Public Domain“As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`I--lo, My covenant <FI>is<Fi> with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 17:4 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
- Genesis 13:16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
- Genesis 16:10Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”
- Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
- Genesis 25:1Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
- Genesis 28:3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
- Genesis 32:12But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
- Genesis 35:11And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
- Genesis 36:1This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).
- Genesis 48:19But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”
- Numbers 1:1On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:
- Numbers 26:1After the plague had ended, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,
- Romans 4:11And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
- Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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