I will make of you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who despises you; and in you all families of the earth shall be blessed.

And He brought him outside and said, Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars if you are able to number them. And He said unto him, So shall your seed be.

I will make you abundantly exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come forth from you.

And I have blessed her and have given you a son by her; yea, I have blessed her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.

And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly abundantly. He shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

And I will also make a nation of the son of the maidservant, because he is your seed.

that in blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.

Then Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.

And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years.

And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,

And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac dwelt at Beer Lahai Roi.

And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

Hadar, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

And these were the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he expired and died, and was gathered to his people.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begot Isaac.

And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren; and Jehovah was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

And Jehovah said to her: Two nations are in your womb, two peoples shall be separated from your body; one people shall be stronger than the other, and the older shall serve the younger.

And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all over; and they called his name Esau.

So the boys grew: And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

Now Jacob boiled stew; and Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.

And Jacob said, Sell me your birthright today.

And Jacob said, Swear to me this day. So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

And I will make your seed multiply as the stars of the heavens; I will give to your seed all these lands; and in your Seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become an assembly of peoples;

And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

For You said, I will do good to deal well with you, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

God also said to him: I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come forth from your loins.

Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.

And Aholibamah bore Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were sojourners could not support them because of their livestock.

And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.

And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

These were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.

These were the chiefs of the sons of Esau: The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn son of Esau, were Chief Teman, Chief Omar, Chief Zepho, Chief Kenaz,

These were the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: Chief Nahath, Chief Zerah, Chief Shammah, and Chief Mizzah. These were the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.

These were the sons of Esau, who is Edom; and these were their chiefs.

Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These were the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.

These were the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

These were the children of Anah: Dishon and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.

These were the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.

These were the chiefs of the Horites: Chief Lotan, Chief Shobal, Chief Zibeon, Chief Anah,

Now these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel:

And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.

And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.

And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.

And Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pau; his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

Chief Aholibamah, Chief Elah, Chief Pinon,

Chief Magdiel, and Chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession. Esau was the father of the Edomites.

And He said, I am the Mighty God, the God of your fathers. Do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.

And the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly numerous; and the land was filled with them.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your seed, and they shall always possess it.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number one-fourth of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his!

Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of the heavens in multitude.

So it was that when Israel had sown, the Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the sons of the East would come up against them.

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as the abundance of locusts; both they and their camels were without number; and they would enter the land to destroy it.

And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a people too numerous to be numbered or counted for multitude.

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to David. All Israel had one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and Judah had four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew the sword.

But David did not take the number of those twenty years old and under, because Jehovah had said He would multiply Israel like the stars of the heavens.

These are their numbers, according to their fathers' houses. Of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valor;

and next to him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto Jehovah, and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor.

and next to him was Jehozabad, and with him one hundred and eighty thousand prepared for war.

Oh that you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Your seed also would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your womb like grains of sand; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before My face.

As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites who serve Me.

Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

who, against hope, believed in hope, so that he might become the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, So shall your seed be.

Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude; innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one was able to number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,