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All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/genesis/26-4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/genesis/26-4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/genesis/26-4.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/1.htm">Genesis</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/26.htm">Chapter 26</a> > Verse 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/26-3.htm" title="Genesis 26:3">◄</a> Genesis 26:4 <a href="../genesis/26-5.htm" title="Genesis 26:5">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/genesis/26.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/genesis/26.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give them all this territory. All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/26.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and will give to your offspring all these lands; and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring,<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/genesis/26.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all of this land. They will be a blessing to every nation on earth, <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/26.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and in your descendants all the nations of the earth will find blessing—<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/genesis/26.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.</p><p class="hdg">multiply.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/13-16.htm">Genesis 13:16</a> And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/15-5.htm">Genesis 15:5,18</a> And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/17-4.htm">Genesis 17:4-8</a> And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/18-18.htm">Genesis 18:18</a> Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/22-17.htm">Genesis 22:17</a> I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/11-2.htm">Hebrews 11:2</a> For by this the ancients obtained a testimony.</p><p class="hdg">seed shall.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/12-2.htm">Genesis 12:2,3</a> And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/22-18.htm">Genesis 22:18</a> And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/72-17.htm">Psalm 72:17</a> Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/3-25.htm">Acts 3:25</a> You are the children of the prophets and of the testament which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/3-8.htm">Galatians 3:8,16</a> And the scripture, foreseeing that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/genesis/26.htm">God's Promise to Isaac</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>And sojourn in it, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these countries, to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father. <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl">And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.</span><span class="reftext">5</span>Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../galatians/3-8.htm">Galatians 3:8</a></span><br />And the scripture, foreseeing that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/12-3.htm">Genesis 12:3</a></span><br />I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/15-5.htm">Genesis 15:5</a></span><br />And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/22-17.htm">Genesis 22:17</a></span><br />I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/22-18.htm">Genesis 22:18</a></span><br />And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/26-24.htm">Genesis 26:24</a></span><br />Where the Lord appeared to him that same night, saying: I am the God of Abraham thy father, do not fear, for I am with thee: I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/28-3.htm">Genesis 28:3</a></span><br />And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/28-14.htm">Genesis 28:14</a></span><br />And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/35-12.htm">Genesis 35:12</a></span><br />And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/47-27.htm">Genesis 47:27</a></span><br />So Israel dwelt in Egypt, that is, in the land of Gessen, and possessed it; and grew, and was multiplied exceedingly.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/6-4.htm">Exodus 6:4</a></span><br />And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of Chanaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/32-13.htm">Exodus 32:13</a></span><br />Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess it for ever:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/9-5.htm">Deuteronomy 9:5</a></span><br />For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/13-17.htm">Deuteronomy 13:17</a></span><br />And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to thy hand: that the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on thee, and multiply thee as he swore to thy fathers,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/27-23.htm">1 Chronicles 27:23</a></span><br />But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/26-3.htm">Bless</a> <a href="/genesis/25-11.htm">Blessed</a> <a href="/genesis/26-3.htm">Blessing</a> <a href="/genesis/26-3.htm">Countries</a> <a href="/genesis/26-3.htm">Descendants</a> <a href="/genesis/24-52.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/genesis/24-7.htm">Heaven</a> <a href="/genesis/24-3.htm">Heavens</a> <a href="/genesis/26-3.htm">Lands</a> <a href="/jude/1-2.htm">Multiplied</a> <a href="/genesis/22-17.htm">Multiply</a> <a href="/genesis/25-23.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/genesis/22-17.htm">Numerous</a> <a href="/genesis/25-4.htm">Offspring</a> <a href="/genesis/26-3.htm">Seed</a> <a href="/genesis/22-17.htm">Sky</a> <a href="/genesis/22-17.htm">Stars</a> <a href="/genesis/22-18.htm">Themselves</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/26-24.htm">Bless</a> <a href="/genesis/26-12.htm">Blessed</a> <a href="/genesis/26-12.htm">Blessing</a> <a href="/genesis/41-57.htm">Countries</a> <a href="/genesis/26-24.htm">Descendants</a> <a href="/genesis/26-15.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/genesis/27-28.htm">Heaven</a> <a href="/genesis/27-39.htm">Heavens</a> <a href="/genesis/41-54.htm">Lands</a> <a href="/genesis/26-24.htm">Multiplied</a> <a href="/genesis/26-24.htm">Multiply</a> <a href="/genesis/27-29.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/genesis/47-27.htm">Numerous</a> <a href="/genesis/28-14.htm">Offspring</a> <a href="/genesis/26-12.htm">Seed</a> <a href="/genesis/27-28.htm">Sky</a> <a href="/genesis/37-9.htm">Stars</a> <a href="/genesis/28-14.htm">Themselves</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/26-4.htm">Genesis 26:4 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/26-4.htm">Genesis 26:4 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/26-4.htm">Genesis 26:4 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/26-4.htm">Genesis 26:4 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/26-4.htm">Genesis 26:4 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/26-4.htm">Genesis 26:4 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/26-4.htm">Genesis 26:4 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/26-4.htm">Genesis 26:4 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/genesis/26-4.htm">Genesis 26:4 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: all and as be blessed by descendants earth give heaven I in lands make multiply nations numerous of offspring on shall sky stars the them these through will your<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/genesis/26-4.htm">OT Law: Genesis 26:4 I will multiply your seed as (Gen. 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