Genesis 28:3

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Genesis 28:3

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

God

And make

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Bible References

God

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

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.

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.

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.”

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

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

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.

I will be a Father

to you,

and you will be sons

and daughters to Me,

says the Lord Almighty.

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

And make

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.”

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

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.

They blessed Rebekah, saying to her:

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

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

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

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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.

“Tell Aaron and his sons how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.