a father.

Genesis 12:2
I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

Genesis 16:10
Then the Angel added, "I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count."

Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 25:1-18
Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah, . . .

Genesis 32:12
But You have said, 'I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.'"

Genesis 35:11
And God told him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation--even a company of nations--shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

Genesis 36:1-43
This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom). . . .

Numbers 1:1-54
On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He told him, . . .

Numbers 26:1-65
After the plague had ended, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, . . .

Romans 4:11-18
And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. . . .

Galatians 3:28, 29
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. . . .

many nations.