Genesis 28:3

28:3 May the sovereign God3 bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants!4 Then you will become5 a large nation.6

3	tn Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Gen 17:1.
4	tn Heb “and make you fruitful and multiply you.” See Gen 17:6, 20 for similar terminology.
5	tn The perfect verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here indicates consequence. The collocation הָיָה + preposition לְ (hayah + lé) means “become.”
6	tn Heb “an assembly of peoples.”