◄ Hebrews 6:14 ►
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Good News Translation
He said, "I promise you that I will bless you and give you many descendants."

New Revised Standard Version
saying, “I will surely bless you and multiply you.”

Contemporary English Version
"I, the Lord, will bless you with many descendants!"

New American Bible
and said, “I will indeed bless you and multiply” you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee and multiplying I shall multiply thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee and multiplying I shall multiply thee.

multiplying.

Genesis 17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee 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 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess it for ever:

Deuteronomy 1:10 I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for 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.

Context
God's Unchangeable Promise
13For God making promises to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself, 14Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee and multiplying I shall multiply thee. 15And so patiently enduring he obtained the promise.…
Cross References
Genesis 22:16
By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:

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.

Deuteronomy 1:8
Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it, concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.

Galatians 3:18
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise.

1 Peter 3:9
Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

Hebrews 6:13
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