But I will harden<n id="1" /> Pharaoh&#8217;s heart, and although I will multiply<n id="2" /> my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain<n id="1" /> my covenant with you.

I will multiply your people<n id="1" /> &#8211; the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you.<n id="1" /> I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants.<n id="2" /> He will become the father of twelve princes;<n id="3" /> I will make him into a great nation.

I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them<n id="1" /> all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.<n id="2" />

I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful.<n id="1" /> I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history.<n id="2" /> Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and multiply it; I will not bring a famine on you.

I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them.<n id="1" /> I will establish them,<n id="2" /> increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever.

The <sc>Lordsc> appeared to him that night and said, &#8220;I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.&#8221;