I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.

I am going to give you and your descendants all the land that you see, and it will be yours forever.

I am going to give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all; it would be as easy to count all the specks of dust on earth!

I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies.

I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give them all this territory. All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants.

May Almighty God bless your marriage and give you many children, so that you will become the father of many nations!

And there was the LORD standing beside him. "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham and Isaac," he said. "I will give to you and to your descendants this land on which you are lying.

Remember, I will be with you and protect you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done all that I have promised you."

Remember that you promised to make everything go well for me and to give me more descendants than anyone could count, as many as the grains of sand along the seashore."

And God said to him, "I am Almighty God. Have many children. Nations will be descended from you, and you will be the ancestor of kings.

"I am God, the God of your father," he said. "Do not be afraid to go to Egypt; I will make your descendants a great nation there.

The Israelites lived in Egypt in the region of Goshen, where they became rich and had many children.

but their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and became so numerous and strong that Egypt was filled with them.

So the Egyptians put slave drivers over them to crush their spirits with hard labor. The Israelites built the cities of Pithom and Rameses to serve as supply centers for the king.

The Most High assigned nations their lands; he determined where peoples should live. He assigned to each nation a heavenly being,

I will bring my people back to their land. They will rebuild their ruined cities and live there; they will plant vineyards and drink the wine; they will plant gardens and eat what they grow.

I will plant my people on the land I gave them, and they will not be pulled up again." The LORD your God has spoken.

I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever, and I will be their God."

Each one must be circumcised, and this will be a physical sign to show that my covenant with you is everlasting.