Genesis 17:2
Good News Translation
I will make my covenant with you and give you many descendants."

New Revised Standard Version
And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous.”

Contemporary English Version
I will keep my solemn promise to you and give you more descendants than can be counted."

New American Bible
Between you and me I will establish my covenant, and I will multiply you exceedingly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

And I.

Genesis 17:4-6 And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. . . .

Genesis 9:9 Behold I will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you:

Genesis 15:18 That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.

Psalm 105:8-11 He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. . . .

Galatians 3:17,18 Now this I say: that the testament which was confirmed by God, the law which was made after four hundred and thirty years doth not disannul, to make the promise of no effect. . . .

multiply.

Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

Genesis 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.

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.

Context
The Renaming of Abraham
1And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect. 2And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.3Abram fell flat on his face.…
Cross References
Romans 9:4
Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:

Genesis 13:16
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.

Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.

Genesis 15:18
That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.

Genesis 28:3
And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.

2 Kings 13:23
And the Lord had mercy on them, and returned to them, because of his covenant, which he had made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob: and he would not destroy them, nor utterly cast them away, unto this present time.

1 Chronicles 16:16
The covenant which he made with Abraham: and his oath to Isaac.

Psalm 25:14
The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.

Psalm 105:9
Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:

Genesis 17:1
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