⁶ I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and ^(A)kings will come from you.

^4 (A)I will multiply your ^[a]descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your ^[b]descendants all these lands; and ^(B)by your ^[c]descendants all the nations of the earth ^[d]shall be blessed,

¹¹ God also said to him,

⁷ But the sons of Israel ^(A)were fruitful and ^[a]increased greatly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly ^[b]mighty, so that the land was filled with them.

⁵ And you shall respond and say before the Lord your God, ‘^(A)My father was a ^[a]wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and ^[b]resided there, ^(B)few in number; but there he became a ^(C)great, mighty, and populous nation.

¹⁷ “But as the ^(A)time of the promise which God had assured to Abraham was approaching, ^(B)the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,