Leviticus 26:9

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“I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.”

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BSBPD

“I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And I have turned unto you, and have made you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and have established My covenant with you;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 26:9 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 6:18But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
  2. Genesis 17:6I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
  3. Genesis 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
  4. Genesis 26:4I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
  5. Genesis 28:3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
  6. Genesis 28:14Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
  7. Exodus 1:7but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
  8. Exodus 2:25God saw the Israelites and took notice.
  9. Exodus 6:4I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
  10. Deuteronomy 28:4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock— the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
  11. Deuteronomy 28:11The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
  12. 1 Kings 3:8Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
  13. 2 Kings 13:23But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.
  14. Nehemiah 2:20So I answered them and said, “The God of heaven is the One who will grant us success. We, His servants, will start rebuilding, but you have no portion, right, or claim in Jerusalem.”
  15. Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
  16. Psalms 89:3You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
  17. Psalms 107:38He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
  18. Psalms 138:6Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.
  19. Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.
  20. Jeremiah 23:3Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.
  21. Jeremiah 23:4I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.
  22. Jeremiah 33:3Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
  23. Ezekiel 16:62So I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD,
  24. Luke 1:72to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

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