Exodus 1:7

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Summary

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

Fruitful

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Fruitful

The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 soldiers on foot, besides their families.

Then God said, “Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

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

I will make you into a great nation,
I will bless you,
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.

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.

He took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “Your offspring will be that numerous.”

“As for Me, My covenant is with you: you will become the father of many nations.

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.

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring,

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

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.

God said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property in it and became fruitful and very numerous.

He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful and numerous; I will make many nations come from you, and I will give this land as an eternal possession to your future descendants.’

Your fathers went down to Egypt, 70 people in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

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

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

You multiplied their descendants
like the stars of heaven
and brought them to the land
You told their ancestors to go in and take possession of it.

The Lord

made His people very fruitful;

He made them more numerous than their foes,

“As the time was drawing near to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egypt

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I will make you into a great nation,
I will bless you,
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.

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.

Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are so numerous, and you would stop them from working.”

And so, after waiting patiently, Abraham obtained the promise.