Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.

Then God said, "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens."

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

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

"And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, [then] your descendants also could be numbered.

Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."

"As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

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

"blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which [is] on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.

"And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants 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 be an assembly of peoples;

And give you the blessing of Abraham, To you and your descendants with you, That you may inherit the land In which you are a stranger, Which God gave to Abraham."

"Also your descendants 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.

Also God 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 from your body.

So He said, "I [am] God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.

So Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there and grew and multiplied exceedingly.

"and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this land to your descendants after you [as] an everlasting possession.'

The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, Bless the lads; Let my name be named upon them, And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; And let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."

"Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.

"And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God: 'My father [was] a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, And brought them into the land Which You had told their fathers To go in and possess.

He increased His people greatly, And made them stronger than their enemies.

" But when the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt

"till another king arose who did not know Joseph.