Genesis 17:2
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New International Version (©2011)
Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers."

New Living Translation (©2007)
I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants."

English Standard Version (©2001)
that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I will establish My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you greatly."

International Standard Version (©2012)
I'll establish my covenant between me and you, and I'll greatly increase your numbers."

NET Bible (©2006)
Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will give you my promise, and I will give you very many descendants."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.

American King James Version
And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.

American Standard Version
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

Darby Bible Translation
And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee.

English Revised Version
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

World English Bible
I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

Young's Literal Translation
and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:1-6 The covenant was to be accomplished in due time. The promised Seed was Christ, and Christians in him. And all who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abram, being partakers of the same covenant blessings. In token of this covenant his name was changed from Abram, a high father, to Abraham, the father of a multitude. All that the Christian world enjoys, it is indebted for to Abraham and his Seed.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - And I will make my covenant between me and thee. Literally, I will give (cf. Genesis 9:9, 11, 12). Neither an additional covenant to that described in Genesis 15. (Rosenmüller), nor a different traditional account of the transaction contained in Genesis 15. (Tuch, Bleek), nor the original Elohistic narrative of which that in Genesis 15. was a later imitation (Knobel); but an intimation that the covenant already concluded was about to be carried into execution, and the promise of a son to be more specifically determined as the offspring of Sarai (Keil). And will multiply thee exceedingly (vide Genesis 12:2; Genesis 13:16; Genesis 15:5).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I will make my covenant between me and thee,.... The covenant of circumcision, so called from the token of it, which God is said to make or give (e), being his own constitution, and depended on his sovereign will and pleasure, see Acts 7:8,

and will multiply thee exceedingly; as he had before promised at several times, and now renews it, lest be should think that Ishmael was the promised seed; for though Hagar's seed is promised to be multiplied, yet here Abram's seed by Sarai is intended, which should be exceeding exceedingly, or in great abundance multiplied; and especially as this may include both his natural seed by her, and his spiritual seed among all nations, who are of the same faith with him, see Genesis 12:2.

(e) "dabo", Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt.

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Abram Named Abraham
1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be you perfect. 2And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly. 3And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, …

Romans 9:4 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.
Genesis 13:16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
Genesis 15:5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the sky and count the stars--if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
Genesis 15:18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates--
Genesis 28:3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
2 Kings 13:23 But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To this day he has been unwilling to destroy them or banish them from his presence.
1 Chronicles 16:16 the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.
Psalm 25:14 The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.
Psalm 105:9 the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac.