Genesis 17:4-6

New Living Translation

⁴“This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of a multitude of nations! ⁵What’s more, I am changing your name. It will no longer be Abram. Instead, you will be called Abraham,^[a] for you will be the father of many nations. ⁶I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations, and kings will be among them!

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Footnotes

17:5 Abram means “exalted father”; Abraham sounds like a Hebrew term that means “father of many.”

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