² And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.

² And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

¹⁶ And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

¹⁸ In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

⁹ Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,

⁴ As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

⁵ No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

⁶ I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

¹⁷ That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

⁸ He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

⁹ The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

¹⁰ And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

¹¹ Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:

¹⁷ Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.

¹⁸ Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word.