Parallel Verses

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;

Holman Bible

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

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
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 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother. 3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. 4 May He also give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, that you may possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.”

Cross References

Genesis 35:11

God also said to him,
“I am God Almighty;
Be fruitful and multiply;
A nation and a company of nations shall come from you,
And kings shall come forth from you.

Genesis 48:3

Then 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 and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 9:1

And 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 descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered.

Genesis 17:1-6

Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him,
“I am God Almighty;
Walk before Me, and be blameless.

Genesis 22:17-18

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah and said to her,
“May you, our sister,
Become thousands of ten thousands,
And may your descendants possess
The gate of those who hate them.”

Genesis 41:52

He named the second Ephraim, “For,” he said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 43:14

and may God Almighty grant you compassion in the sight of the man, so that he will release to you your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

Exodus 6:3

and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, Lord, I did not make Myself known to them.

Psalm 127:1

A Song of Ascents, of Solomon.
Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.

Psalm 127:3-6

Behold, children are a gift of the Lord,
The fruit of the womb is a reward.

2 Corinthians 6:18

And I will be a father to you,
And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”
Says the Lord Almighty.

Revelation 21:22

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

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