Genesis 12:3

I shall bless them that bless thee, and I shall curse them that curse thee; and all kindreds of [the] earth shall be blessed in thee (or and all the families on the earth shall pray to be blessed as thou art blessed, or and through thee I shall bless all the nations of the earth).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

In Context

2and I shall make thee into a great folk (or and I shall make thee into a great nation), and I shall bless thee, and I shall magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed;

4And so Abram went out, as the Lord commanded him, and Lot went with him. Abram was five and seventy years (old) when he went out of Haran.

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Cross References

Genesis 22:18and all the folks of [the] earth shall be blessed in thy seed, for thou obeyedest to my voice. (and all the nations of the earth shall pray to be blessed as thy descendants be blessed, or and through thy descendants I shall bless all the nations of the earth, for thou hast obeyed my voice.)

Genesis 26:29(so) that thou do not any [thing of] evil to us, as we (have) touched nothing of thine, neither did that that hurted thee, but with peace we let go thee (or but we let thee go away in peace), (and now thou art) increased by the blessing (s) of the Lord.

Genesis 28:14And thy seed shall be as the dust of [the] earth, (and) thou shalt be alarged to the east, and west, and to the north, and south; and all the lineages of [the] earth shall be blessed in thee and in thy seed, (or and all the families of the earth shall pray to be blessed as thee and thy descendants be blessed, or and through thee and thy descendants, I shall bless all the families of the earth).

Genesis 30:30thou haddest little before that I came to thee, and now thou art made rich, and the Lord [hath] blessed thee at mine entering; therefore it is just that I purvey sometime also for mine house (or and so it is only right that I provide something for my own household, or my own family).

Exodus 23:22For if thou hearest his voice, and doest all things which I speak, (or But if thou listenest to his voice, and doest all the things which I say to thee), I shall be (an) enemy to thine enemies, and I shall torment them, that torment thee;

Psalms 72:17His name be blessed into worlds; his name dwell before the sun. And all the lineages of earth shall be blessed in him; all folks shall magnify him. (May the king’s name be blessed forever; and his name remain as long as the sun. And may all the peoples of the earth ask to be blessed as he was; may all the nations magnify him.)

Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:2-4

The Call of Abram. ( b. c. 1921.) 1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. We have here the call by which Abram was removed out of the land of his nativity… Read the whole commentary →

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