Genesis 26:29

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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.”

Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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.

He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”

They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

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.

He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”

Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you,

His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!

You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ”

I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace.”

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

By faith, Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

and said, “ ‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.

Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.

saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.

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.

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

Salvation belongs to Yahweh. May your blessing be on your people.

When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.

My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

Our help is in Yahweh’s name, who made heaven and earth.

May Yahweh bless you from Zion, even he who made heaven and earth.

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.