“I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.”
Genesis 17:6
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- El Shaddai and the Letter God Hid in a New Name (Genesis 17)
Connection with Isaac's blessing of Jacob
Years later Isaac blessed Jacob with these same promises of God Almighty: fruitfulness and nations. Every phrase came first from what God said to Abram in Genesis 17:1 and here. Abraham was dead, and what God had said to him was still the most valuable thing Isaac had to give.
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