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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety- nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him,“ I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
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Exodus 6:3
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
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Genesis 17:5-7
Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
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Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”
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Genesis 22:17
that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
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Exodus 1:7
The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
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Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
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Genesis 28:14
Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.
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Genesis 32:12
You said,‘ I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”
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Genesis 46:3
He said,“ I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
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Genesis 15:5
Yahweh brought him outside, and said,“ Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram,“ So your offspring will be.”
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Genesis 18:18
since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
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Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them,“ Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
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Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
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2 Corinthians 6 18
I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
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Genesis 48:3-4
Jacob said to Joseph,“ God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,and said to me,‘ Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’
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Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.
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Genesis 28:3-4
May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”
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Genesis 43:14
May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”
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1 Samuel 1 1-1 Samuel 1 28
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions;but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.So year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.Elkanah her husband said to her,“ Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.She vowed a vow, and said,“ Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”As she continued praying before Yahweh, Eli saw her mouth.Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.Eli said to her,“ How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”Hannah answered,“ No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”Then Eli answered,“ Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”She said,“ Let your servant find favor in your sight.” So the woman went her way and ate; and her facial expression wasn’t sad any more.They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying,“ Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice and his vow.But Hannah didn’t go up, for she said to her husband,“ Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”Elkanah her husband said to her,“ Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word.” So the woman waited and nursed her son until she weaned him.When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a container of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.She said,“ Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.
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Numbers 1:1-26
Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,“ Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house.These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty- six thousand five hundred.Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty- nine thousand three hundred.Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty- five thousand six hundred fifty.Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:
