I will make you into a great nation,(A)
I will bless you,(B)
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.[a](C)

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  1. Genesis 12:2 Or great. Be a blessing!

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

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13 Then the Lord said to Abram,(A) “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be foreigners(B) in a land that does not belong to them; they will be enslaved and oppressed[a] 400 years.(C) 14 However, I will judge the nation they serve,(D) and afterward they will go out with many possessions.(E)

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  1. Genesis 15:13 Lit will serve them and they will oppress them

13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years(A) your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved(B) and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out(C) with great possessions.(D)

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13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

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11 God also said to him:

I am God Almighty.(A)
Be fruitful and multiply.(B)
A nation, indeed an assembly of nations,
will come from you,(C)
and kings will descend from you.[a](D)

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  1. Genesis 35:11 Lit will come from your loins

11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty[a];(A) be fruitful and increase in number.(B) A nation(C) and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.(D)

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  1. Genesis 35:11 Hebrew El-Shaddai

11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

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But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous(A) so that the land was filled with them.

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but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers(A) and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.

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And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

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He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are.(A)

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“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous(A) for us.(B)

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And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

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You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God:

My father was a wandering Aramean.(A) He went down to Egypt with a few people and lived there.(B) There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

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Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering(A) Aramean,(B) and he went down into Egypt with a few people(C) and lived there and became a great nation,(D) powerful and numerous.

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And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

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