So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.
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.
- BSB I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
- ESV I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.
- NKJV ‘For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and 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.
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- Gen 17:6–7I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
- Neh 9:23You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
- Ezek 16:62I will establish my covenant with you; and you will know that I am Yahweh;
- Ps 107:38He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
- Isa 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Gen 28:3May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
- Ps 138:6–7For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.
- Deut 28:11Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
- Jer 33:3‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.’
- Gen 28:14Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.
- Ps 89:3“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
- Exod 6:4I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.
- Exod 1:7The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
- Gen 26:4I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
- Gen 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
- Luke 1:72to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,
- Deut 28:4You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
- Exod 2:25God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.
- Gen 6:18But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
- 2 Kgs 13:23But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.
- Heb 8:9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.
- Neh 2:20Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”
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