²³ Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.

¹⁵ You have made the nation great, O Lord, you have made it great; glory is yours: you have made wide the limits of the land.

³ You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

²² The smallest of their families will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I, the Lord, will make it come quickly in its time.

³⁸ He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.

⁸ With the sound of the pipe I will get them together; for I have given the price to make them free: and they will be increased as they were increased.

²² As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.

¹⁹ And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.

² Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.

⁶ In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

²⁰ And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong.

⁷ And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.