4 “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the qfather of a multitude of nations. 5 rNo longer shall your name be called Abram,1 sbut your name shall be Abraham,2 for tI have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6 I will make you exceedingly ufruitful, and I will make you into nations, and vkings shall come from you.
16 I will bless her, and moreover, I will give1 you a son nby her. I will bless her, and oshe shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”
18 seeing that Abraham shall surely become a ngreat and mighty nation, and oall the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
24 And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, z“I am the God of Abraham your father. aFear not, for I am with you and will bless you and bmultiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
11 And God said to him, “I am God wAlmighty:1 xbe fruitful and multiply. yA nation and a zcompany of nations shall come from you, and akings shall come from your own body.2
3 Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father. bDo not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for cthere I will make you into a dgreat nation.
5 “And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A wandering dAramean was my father. And he ewent down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and fthere he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
17 as it is written, e“I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God fin whom he believed, who ggives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
