Genesis 28:3
And God allmightie blesse the increase the and multiplie the that thou mayst be a nombre of people
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
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Genesis 9:1And God blessed Noe and his sonnes and sayd vnto them: Increase and multiplye and fyll the erth.
Genesis 17:1When Abram was nynetye yere olde and ix. the LORde apeared to hym sayenge: I am the almyghtie God: walke before me ad be vncorrupte.
Genesis 17:4I am beholde my testamet is with the that thou shalt be a father of many natios.
Genesis 22:17that I will blesse th and multiplye thy seed as the starres of heaven and as the sonde vpo the seesyde. And thy seed shall possesse the gates of hys enymies.
Genesis 35:11And God sayde vnto him: I am God allmightie growe and multiplye: for people and a multitude of people shall sprynge of the yee ad kynges shall come out of they loynes.
Genesis 43:14And God almightie geue you mercie in the sighte of the man and send you youre other brother and also Be Iamin and I wilbe as a ma robbed of his childern.
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 →