Exodus 1:7
Good News Translation
but their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and became so numerous and strong that Egypt was filled with them.

New Revised Standard Version
But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Contemporary English Version
the people of Israel became so numerous that the whole region of Goshen was full of them.

New American Bible
But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific. They multiplied and became so very numerous that the land was filled with them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.

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The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.

fruitful.

Exodus 12:37 And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.

Genesis 1:20,28 God also said: let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven. . . .

Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

Genesis 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.

Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.

Genesis 17:4-6,16 And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. . . .

Genesis 22:17 I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4 And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 28:3,4,14 And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people. . . .

Genesis 35:11 And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

Genesis 46:3 God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father; fear not, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there.

Genesis 47:27 So Israel dwelt in Egypt, that is, in the land of Gessen, and possessed it; and grew, and was multiplied exceedingly.

Genesis 48:4,16 And said: I will cause thee to increase and multiply, and I will make of thee a multitude of people: and I will give this land to thee, and to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. . . .

Deuteronomy 10:22 In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 26:5 And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite multitude.

Nehemiah 9:23 And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their fathers, that they should go in and possess it.

Psalm 105:24 And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies.

Acts 7:17,18 And when the time of the promise drew near, which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt. . . .

Context
The Israelites Multiply in Egypt
6After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation, 7The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.
Cross References
Acts 7:17
And when the time of the promise drew near, which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt.

Acts 13:17
The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an high arm brought them out from thence:

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

Genesis 26:22
Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not; therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.

Genesis 28:3
And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.

Genesis 35:11
And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

Genesis 46:3
God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father; fear not, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there.

Genesis 47:27
So Israel dwelt in Egypt, that is, in the land of Gessen, and possessed it; and grew, and was multiplied exceedingly.

Genesis 48:4
And said: I will cause thee to increase and multiply, and I will make of thee a multitude of people: and I will give this land to thee, and to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

Exodus 1:12
But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied and increased.

Exodus 5:5
And Pharao said: The people of the land are numerous; you see that the multitude is increased; how much more if you give them rest from their works?

Deuteronomy 26:5
And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite multitude.

Psalm 105:24
And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies.

Psalm 107:38
And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.

Ezekiel 16:7
I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field: and thou didst increase and grow great, and advancedst, and camest to woman's ornament: thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: and thou was naked, and full of confusion.

Exodus 1:6
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