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 journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependants.

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

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

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

The Lord took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars -- if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."

"As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.

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.

Then God said to him, "I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation -- even a company of nations -- will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!

He 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 land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.

He said to me, 'I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.'

When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Then you must affirm before the Lord your God, "A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

The Lord made his people very fruitful, and made them more numerous than their enemies.

"But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

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Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

Pharaoh was thinking, "The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor."

And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise.