Leviticus 26:9
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.

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.

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.

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.

for I

Exodus 2:25 And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them.

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.

Nehemiah 2:20 And I answered them, and said to them: The God of heaven he helpeth us, and we are his servants: let us rise up and build: but you have no part, nor justice, nor remembrance in Jerusalem.

Psalm 89:3 I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:

Psalm 138:6,7 For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off. . . .

Jeremiah 33:3 Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will shew thee great things, and sure things which thou knowest not.

Hebrews 8:9 Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

make you

Genesis 17:6,7,20 And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. . . .

Genesis 26:4 And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity 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 to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people. . . .

Exodus 1:7 The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.

Deuteronomy 28:4,11 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the folds of thy sheep. . . .

Nehemiah 9:23 And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their fathers, that they should go in and possess it.

Psalm 107:38 And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.

establish

Genesis 6:18 And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.

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

Exodus 6:4 And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of Chanaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers.

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

Ezekiel 16:62 And I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord,

Luke 1:72 To perform mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy testament.

Context
The Blessings of Obedience
8Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others: and a hundred of you ten thousand. Your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.10You shall eat the oldest of the old store: and, new coming on, you shall cast away the old.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

Genesis 17:6
And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

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

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.

Genesis 48:4
And said: I will cause thee to increase and multiply, and I will make of thee a multitude of people: and I will give this land to thee, and to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

Leviticus 26:15
If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:

Deuteronomy 7:13
And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy oil, and thy herds, and the flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for which he swore to thy fathers that he would give it thee.

Ezekiel 36:9
For I, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.

Leviticus 26:8
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