Genesis 28:3
New International Version
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.

New Living Translation
May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations!

English Standard Version
God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

Berean Standard Bible
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

King James Bible
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

New King James Version
“May God Almighty bless you, And make you fruitful and multiply you, That you may be an assembly of peoples;

New American Standard Bible
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a multitude of peoples.

NASB 1995
“May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

NASB 1977
“And may God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

Legacy Standard Bible
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become an assembly of peoples.

Amplified Bible
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a [great] company of peoples.

Christian Standard Bible
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.

American Standard Version
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And God Almighty will bless you and will increase you and multiply you, and you shall be a multitude of peoples;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And may my God bless thee, and increase thee, and multiply thee, and thou shalt become gatherings of nations.

Contemporary English Version
I pray that God All-Powerful will bless you with many descendants and let you become a great nation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase, and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.

English Revised Version
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
May God Almighty bless you, make you fertile, and increase the number of your descendants so that you will become a community of people.

Good News Translation
May Almighty God bless your marriage and give you many children, so that you will become the father of many nations!

International Standard Version
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful so that your descendants become a whole group of people.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a congregation of peoples;

Literal Standard Version
and God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and you have become an assembly of peoples;

Majority Standard Bible
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

New American Bible
May God Almighty bless you and make you fertile, multiply you that you may become an assembly of peoples.

NET Bible
May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

New Revised Standard Version
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and numerous, that you may become a company of peoples.

New Heart English Bible
May El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

Webster's Bible Translation
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

World English Bible
May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

Young's Literal Translation
and God Almighty doth bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and thou hast become an assembly of peoples;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Jacob Flees to Laban
2“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. 3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples. 4And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”…

Cross References
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

Genesis 17:2
I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly."

Genesis 17:6
I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 26:24
and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham."


Treasury of Scripture

And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a multitude of people;

God.

Genesis 17:1-6
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…

Genesis 22:17,18
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; …

Genesis 35:11
And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

and make.

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Genesis 13:16
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

a multitude.

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Genesis 28
1. Isaac blesses Jacob, and sends him to Padan-aram.
6. Esau marries Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael.
10. Jacob journeys, and has a vision of a ladder.
18. The stone of Bethel.
20. Jacob's vow.














(3) God Almighty.--Heb., El Shaddai. As it was Isaac's purpose in this blessing to confirm Jacob in the possession of the promises made to Abraham, he is careful to use the same title as that borne by God in the covenant whereby the land of Canaan was given to his seed, and of which the sacrament of circumcision was the seal. (See Genesis 17:1.)

A multitude of people.--Heb., a congregation of peoples. This is not the word used in Genesis 17:4, but one that signifies an assembly, especially one summoned for religious purposes. Like the Greek word for church, ecclesia, it comes from a root signifying" to convoke." It subsequently became the regular phrase for "the congregation of Israel" (Leviticus 16:17), and implies even here that the nations descended from Jacob would have a religious significance.

Verse 3. - And God Almighty - El Shaddai (vide Genesis 17:1) - bless thee, - the Abrahamic benediction in its fullest form was given by El Shaddai (vide Genesis 17:1-8) - and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be - literally, and thou shalt become (or grow to) - a multitude - an assembly, or congregation, or crowd called together, from a root signifying to call together (Gesenius), or to sweep up together (Furst); corresponding to ἐκκλησία ιν Greek - of people.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
May God
וְאֵ֤ל (wə·’êl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

Almighty
שַׁדַּי֙ (šad·day)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7706: The Almighty

bless
יְבָרֵ֣ךְ (yə·ḇā·rêḵ)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse

you
אֹֽתְךָ֔ (’ō·ṯə·ḵā)
Direct object marker | second person masculine singular
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

and make you fruitful
וְיַפְרְךָ֖ (wə·yap̄·rə·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6509: To bear fruit, be fruitful

and multiply you,
וְיַרְבֶּ֑ךָ (wə·yar·be·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great

so that you may become
וְהָיִ֖יתָ (wə·hā·yî·ṯā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a company
לִקְהַ֥ל (liq·hal)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6951: Assembly, convocation, congregation

of peoples.
עַמִּֽים׃ (‘am·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock


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