But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous so that the land was filled with them.

He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are.

So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very numerous.

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

I will drive them out little by little ahead of you until you have become numerous and take possession of the land.

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel—You swore to them by Your very self and declared, ‘I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit it forever.’”