Genesis 17:6
And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Faciamque te crescere vehementissime, et ponam te in gentibus, regesque ex te egredientur.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ αὐξανῶ σε σφόδρα, καὶ θήσω σε εἰς ἔθνη, καὶ βασιλεῖς ἐκ σοῦ ἐξελεύσονται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהִפְרֵתִ֤י אֹֽתְךָ֙ בִּמְאֹ֣ד מְאֹ֔ד וּנְתַתִּ֖יךָ לְגוֹיִ֑ם וּמְלָכִ֖ים מִמְּךָ֥ יֵצֵֽאוּ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine City of God, Of the Change of Name in Abraham and Sarah, Who Received the Gift of Fecundity When They Were Incapable of Regeneration Owing to the Barrenness of One, and the Old Age of Both
Now when a promise so great and clear was made to Abraham, in which it was so plainly said to him, “I have made thee a father of many nations, and I will increase thee exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall go forth of thee. And I will give thee a son of Sarah; and I will bless him, and he shall become nations, and kings of nations shall be of him,”, a promise which we now see fulfilled in Christ, from that time forward this couple are not called in Scripture, as formerly, Abram and Sarai, but Abraham and Sarah, as we have called them from the first, for every one does so now. …