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You will have so many descendants that they will become nations. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/genesis/17-6.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/17-6.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/17-6.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/17.htm">Chapter 17</a> > Verse 6</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/17-5.htm" title="Genesis 17:5">◄</a> Genesis 17:6 <a href="../genesis/17-7.htm" title="Genesis 17:7">►</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/17.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/17.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I will give you many descendants, and some of them will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/17.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/genesis/17.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I will give you a lot of descendants, and they will become great nations. Some of them will even be kings. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/17.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I will make you exceedingly fertile; I will make nations of you; kings will stem from you.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/genesis/17.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.</p><p class="hdg">nations.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/17-4.htm">Genesis 17:4,20</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/35-11.htm">Genesis 35:11</a> And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.</p><p class="hdg">kings.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/17-16.htm">Genesis 17:16</a> And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/36-31.htm">Genesis 36:31</a> And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king, were these:</p><p class="hdg2">*etc:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/4-20.htm">Ezra 4:20</a> For there have been powerful kings in Jerusalem, who have had dominion over all the country that is beyond the river: and have received tribute, and toll and revenues.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/1-6.htm">Matthew 1:6</a> And Jesse begot David the king. And David the king begot Solomon, of her that had been the wife of Urias.</p><p class="hdg2">*etc:</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/genesis/17.htm">The Renaming of Abraham</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations. <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl">And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.</span><span class="reftext">7</span>And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/17-16.htm">Genesis 17:16</a></span><br />And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/26-22.htm">Genesis 26:22</a></span><br />Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not; therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.<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/35-11.htm">Genesis 35:11</a></span><br />And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/36-31.htm">Genesis 36:31</a></span><br />And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king, were these:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/41-52.htm">Genesis 41:52</a></span><br />And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.<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="../leviticus/26-9.htm">Leviticus 26:9</a></span><br />I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.<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/15-1.htm">Exceeding</a> <a href="/genesis/17-2.htm">Exceedingly</a> <a href="/genesis/9-7.htm">Fertile</a> <a href="/genesis/15-5.htm">Forth</a> <a href="/genesis/9-7.htm">Fruitful</a> <a href="/genesis/14-17.htm">Kings</a> <a href="/genesis/17-5.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/genesis/17-2.htm">Offspring</a> <a href="/revelation/19-15.htm">Proceed</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/18-20.htm">Exceeding</a> <a href="/genesis/17-20.htm">Exceedingly</a> <a href="/genesis/17-20.htm">Fertile</a> <a href="/genesis/19-10.htm">Forth</a> <a href="/genesis/17-20.htm">Fruitful</a> <a href="/genesis/17-16.htm">Kings</a> <a href="/genesis/17-16.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/genesis/17-12.htm">Offspring</a> <a href="/genesis/17-16.htm">Proceed</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/17-6.htm">Genesis 17:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/17-6.htm">Genesis 17:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/17-6.htm">Genesis 17:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/17-6.htm">Genesis 17:6 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/17-6.htm">Genesis 17:6 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/17-6.htm">Genesis 17:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/17-6.htm">Genesis 17:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/17-6.htm">Genesis 17:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/genesis/17-6.htm">Genesis 17:6 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: and come exceedingly forth from fruitful I kings make nations of very will you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/genesis/17-6.htm">OT Law: Genesis 17:6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful (Gen. 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