Genesis 28:3
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28:3May 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
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- 3 Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in .
- 4 Heb “and make you fruitful and multiply you.” See Gen 17:6, 20 for similar terminology.
- 5 The perfect verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here indicates consequence. The collocation הָיָה + preposition לְ (hayah + lé) means “become.”
- 6 Heb “an assembly of peoples.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.
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NLTNew Living Translation
May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations!
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Now, may El-Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples.
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KJV 1900King James Version
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
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