Leviticus 26:9
New International Version
“’I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.

New Living Translation
“I will look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people. And I will fulfill my covenant with you.

English Standard Version
I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.

Berean Standard Bible
I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

King James Bible
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

New King James Version
‘For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.

New American Standard Bible
So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.

NASB 1995
‘So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.

NASB 1977
‘So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.

Legacy Standard Bible
So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.

Amplified Bible
For I will turn toward you [with favor and regard] and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish and confirm My covenant with you.

Christian Standard Bible
“I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm my covenant with you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm My covenant with you.

American Standard Version
And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I shall turn to you and I shall multiply you and I shall increase you and I shall confirm my covenant with you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I will look upon you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

Contemporary English Version
I will treat you with such kindness that your nation will grow strong, and I will also keep my promises to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will look on you, and make you increase: you shell be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.

English Revised Version
And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you; and will establish my covenant with you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
and I will be pleased with you. Your families will be large, and I will keep my promise to you.

Good News Translation
I will bless you and give you many children; I will keep my part of the covenant that I made with you.

International Standard Version
"I'll look after you, ensuring that you'll be fruitful. I'll increase your number and keep my covenant with you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you; and will establish My covenant with you.

Literal Standard Version
And I have turned to you, and have made you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and have established My covenant with you;

Majority Standard Bible
I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

New American Bible
I will look with favor upon you, and make you fruitful and numerous, as I carry out my covenant with you.

NET Bible
I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.

New Revised Standard Version
I will look with favor upon you and make you fruitful and multiply you; and I will maintain my covenant with you.

New Heart English Bible
"'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

World English Bible
“‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

Young's Literal Translation
'And I have turned unto you, and have made you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and have established My covenant with you;

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Context
The Blessings of Obedience
8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you. 9I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you. 10You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.…

Cross References
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth."

Genesis 17:6
I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

Genesis 17:7
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 48:4
and told me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.'

Leviticus 26:15
and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

Deuteronomy 7:13
He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land--your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks--in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.


Treasury of Scripture

For I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

for I

Exodus 2:25
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

2 Kings 13:23
And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.

Nehemiah 2:20
Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.

make you

Genesis 17:6,7,20
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee…

Genesis 26:4
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

Genesis 28:3,14
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; …

establish

Genesis 6:18
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Exodus 6:4
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

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(9) For I will have respect unto you.--Better, And I will turn unto you, as it is rendered in the Authorised Version in Ezekiel 46:9, the only other passage where this phrase occurs; that is, be merciful to them and bless them. (Comp. 2Kings 13:23; Psalm 25:16; Psalm 69:17, &c.)

And multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.--That is, by multiplying them as the stars of heaven and the sand of the sea, God fulfil the covenant which He made with their fathers (Genesis 12:2; Genesis 13:16; Genesis 15:5; Genesis 22:17; Exodus 23:26). . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I will turn
וּפָנִ֣יתִי (ū·p̄ā·nî·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6437: To turn, to face, appear, look

toward you
אֲלֵיכֶ֔ם (’ă·lê·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

and make you fruitful
וְהִפְרֵיתִ֣י (wə·hip̄·rê·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6509: To bear fruit, be fruitful

and multiply
וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֖י (wə·hir·bê·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great

you,
אֶתְכֶ֑ם (’eṯ·ḵem)
Direct object marker | second person masculine plural
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

and I will fulfill
וַהֲקִימֹתִ֥י (wa·hă·qî·mō·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

My covenant
בְּרִיתִ֖י (bə·rî·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1285: A covenant

with you.
אִתְּכֶֽם׃ (’it·tə·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among


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