¹¹ Also God said to him: ^(A)“I am God Almighty. ^(B)Be fruitful and multiply; ^(C)a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.

³ So He said, “I am God, ^(A)the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will ^(B)make of you a great nation there.

Joseph’s Vow to Jacob

²⁷ So Israel ^(A)dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there and ^(B)grew and multiplied exceedingly.

⁴ and said to me, ‘Behold, I will ^(A)make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and ^(B)give this land to your descendants after you ^(C)as an everlasting possession.’

³ And ^(A)Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because they were many, and Moab was sick with dread because of the children of Israel.

¹⁰ The Lord your God has multiplied you, ^(A)and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.

^11 (A)May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you ^(B)as He has promised you!

⁵ And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God: ‘My father was ^(A)a ^[a]Syrian, ^(B)about to perish, and ^(C)he went down to Egypt and ^[b]dwelt there, ^(D)few in number; and there he became a nation, ^(E)great, mighty, and populous.