Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.

New American Standard Bible

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

King James Version

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

International Standard Version

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful so that your descendants become a whole group of people.

A Conservative Version

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou may be a company of peoples,

American Standard Version

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples.

Amplified

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a [great] company of peoples.

Bible in Basic English

And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.

Darby Translation

And the Almighty God bless thee, and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayest become a company of peoples.

Julia Smith Translation

And God Almighty will bless thee, and will make thee fruitful, and will multiply thee, and thou wert for an assembly of nations.

King James 2000

And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a multitude of people;

Lexham Expanded Bible

Now, may El-Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples.

Modern King James verseion

And may God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you may be a multitude of peoples.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And God almighty bless thee, increase thee, and multiply thee that thou mayest be a number of people,

NET Bible

May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

New Heart English Bible

May El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

The Emphasized Bible

And, GOD Almighty, bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, so shalt thou become a multitude of peoples.

Webster

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

World English Bible

May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

Youngs Literal Translation

and God Almighty doth bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and thou hast become an assembly of peoples;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And God
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

שׁדּי 
Shadday 
Usage: 48

בּרך 
Barak 
Usage: 330

פּרה 
Parah 
Usage: 29

and multiply
רבה 
Rabah 
Usage: 224

thee, that thou mayest be a multitude
קהל 
Qahal 
Usage: 123

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

God

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Jacob Flees To Haran

2 Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. 3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples. 4 May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”


Cross References

Genesis 35:11

God also said to him:

I am God Almighty.
Be fruitful and multiply.
A nation, indeed an assembly of nations,
will come from you,
and kings will descend from you.

Genesis 48:3

Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”

Genesis 9:1

God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

Genesis 17:1-6

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, “I am God Almighty. Live in My presence and be blameless.

Genesis 22:17-18

I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah, saying to her:

Our sister, may you become
thousands upon ten thousands.
May your offspring possess
the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 41:52

And the second son he named Ephraim, meaning, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 43:14

May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived.”

Exodus 6:3

I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I did not reveal My name Yahweh to them.

Psalm 127:1

A Solomonic song of ascents.Unless the Lord builds a house,
its builders labor over it in vain;
unless the Lord watches over a city,
the watchman stays alert in vain.

Psalm 127:3-6

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord,
children, a reward.

2 Corinthians 6:18

I will be a Father to you,
and you will be sons and daughters to Me,
says the Lord Almighty.

Revelation 21:22

I did not see a sanctuary in it, because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its sanctuary.

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