Genesis 35:11
And God says to him, “I [am] God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from you, and kings from your loins go out;
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Genesis 9:1And God blesses Noah and his sons, and says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;
Genesis 13:16And I have set your seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even your seed is numbered;
Genesis 17:1And Abram is a son of ninety-nine years, and YHWH appears to Abram, and says to him, “I [am] God Almighty, habitually walk before Me, and be perfect;
Genesis 17:6and I have made you exceedingly fruitful, and made you become nations, and kings go out from you.
Genesis 18:14Is anything too wonderful for YHWH? At the appointed time I return to you, about the time of life, and Sarah has a son.”
Genesis 22:17that blessing I bless you, and multiplying I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which [is] on the seashore; and your Seed possesses the gate of His enemies;
Matthew Henry on Genesis 35:7-16
Jacob's Arrival at Bethel. ( b. c. 1732.) 6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-Beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. 8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. 9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.… Read the whole commentary →