Genesis 28:3
May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful and numerous, so that you may become a great people,
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Genesis 9:1Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, ‘Bear children and multiply and repopulate the earth.
Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord revealed himself to Abram and said to him, ‘I am God Almighty, walk before me and be blameless
Genesis 17:4‘I make this solemn promise to you: you will be the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you. I will make your children as many as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, so that they will conquer their enemies.
Genesis 35:11God said to him, ‘I am God Almighty; be fruitful and become numerous; a nation and a multitude of nations will come from you, and kings will descend from you;
Genesis 43:14and may God Almighty grant that the man may be merciful to you and release Benjamin and your other brother. But if I am robbed of my sons, I am bereaved indeed!’
Matthew Henry on Genesis 28:2-6
Jacob Dismissed with a Blessing. ( b. c. 1760.) 1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. 3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; 4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed… Read the whole commentary →