Genesis 17:4

I am, and my covenant of peace is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of many folks (or and thou shalt be the father of many nations);

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

In Context

3And Abram felled down low on his face. And God said to him,

5and thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thou shalt be called Abraham, for I have made thee [the] father of many folks (or for I have made thee the father of many nations);

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Cross References

Genesis 13:16And I shall make thy seed as the dust of the earth; if any man may number the dust of the earth, also he shall be able to number thy seed, (or and only if anyone can count all the dust on the earth, then shall they be able to count all thy descendants).

Genesis 22:17I shall bless thee, and I shall multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the gravel, either sand, which is in the brink of the sea; thy seed shall wield the gates of his enemies; (I shall bless thee, and I shall multiply thy descendants like the stars of the heavens, and like the gravel, or the sand, which is at the seashore; and thy descendants shall control the gates of their enemies;)

Genesis 28:3Soothly Almighty God bless thee (or And may Almighty God bless thee), and make thee to increase, and multiply thee, (so) that thou be into companies of peoples;

Genesis 35:11and said to him, I am God Almighty, (and he said to him, I am Almighty God); increase thou, and be thou multiplied, (yea), folks and peoples of nations shall be of thee, (and) kings shall go out of thy loins;

Genesis 48:19Which forsook to do so, and said, I know, my son, I know; and soothly this child shall be into peoples (or and truly this child shall become a people), and he shall be multiplied; but his younger brother shall be more than he, and his seed shall increase into (a multitude of) folks, ( or into a multitude of nations).

Numbers 26:1After that the blood of (the) guilty men was shed out, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar, the priest, [the] son of Aaron,

Matthew Henry on Genesis 17:2-4

The Covenant with Abraham Renewed. ( b. c. 1898.) 1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. 2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, Here is, I. The time when God made Abram this gracious visit: When he was ninety-nine years old, full thirteen years after the birth of Ishmael. 1. So long, it… Read the whole commentary →

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