Genesis 28:3
28:3 May the sovereign God
bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants!
Then you will become
a large nation.
Genesis 35:11
35:11 Then God said to him, “I am the sovereign God.
Be fruitful and multiply! A nation – even a company of nations – will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!
Genesis 48:4
48:4 He said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful
and will multiply you.
I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants
as an everlasting possession.’
Genesis 49:6
49:6 O my soul, do not come into their council,
do not be united to their assembly, my heart,
for in their anger they have killed men,
and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.