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Read›Hebrews›Chapter 6

God’s Unchangeable Promise

Hebrews 6:14

In 9 translations

BSB
saying, “I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants.”Genesis 22:17
KJV
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
WEB
saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”
ASV
saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
LSV
saying, “Blessing I will indeed bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you”;
YLT
saying, 'Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;'
DBY
saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;
DRC
Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee, and multiplying I shall multiply thee.
GNV
Saying, Surely I wil aboundantly blesse thee and multiplie thee marueilously.

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read εἰ (“If”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read Ἤ (“or”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: Εἰ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read Εἰ; Robinson–Pierpont read Ἦ.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
λέγων· Εἰ μὴν εὐλογῶν εὐλογήσω σε καὶ πληθύνων πληθυνῶ σε·
RP2018
λέγων, Ἦ μὴν εὐλογῶν εὐλογήσω σε, καὶ πληθύνων πληθυνῶ σε.
TR-Boyd
λέγων, Ἦ μὴν εὐλογῶν εὐλογήσω σε, καὶ πληθύνων πληθυνῶ σε.
SCR1894
λεγων η μην ευλογων ευλογησω σε και πληθυνων πληθυνω σε

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
  • Deuteronomy 1:10The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
  • Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
  • Genesis 17:2I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”
  • Exodus 32:13Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this…
  • Genesis 48:4and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’

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