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I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
Leviticus 26:9 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB “‘I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
  • KJV For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
  • NKJV ‘For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.
  • NASB So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.
  • NLT “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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Quick answer

God promises to favor Israel, make them fruitful, multiply them, and confirm His covenant. He faithfully keeps His promises to His people.

Overview

These blessings echo the promises to Abraham of fruitfulness and a confirmed covenant. God's 'respect' or regard for His people is the source of their flourishing. The faithful covenant-keeping God here points to the new covenant established in Christ's blood, in which God dwells with and multiplies a people for Himself.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Gen 17:6–7I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
  • Neh 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.
  • Ezek 16:62So I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD,
  • Ps 107:38He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
  • Isa 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.
  • Gen 28:3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
  • Ps 138:6–7Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.
  • Deut 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.
  • Jer 33:3Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
  • Gen 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.
  • Ps 89:3You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
  • Exod 6:4I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
  • Exod 1:7but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
  • Gen 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,
  • Gen 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.
  • Luke 1:72to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,
  • Deut 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.
  • Exod 2:25God saw the Israelites and took notice.
  • Gen 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 Kgs 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.
  • Heb 8:9It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.
  • Neh 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.”

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Christ at the center

Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.

How Leviticus 26:9 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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