Exodus 1:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 46:3 : 3 And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:
  • Gen 47:27 : 27 And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.
  • Gen 35:11 : 11 And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
  • Deut 26:5 : 5 And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:
  • Neh 9:23 : 23 And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.
  • Deut 10:22 : 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.
  • Gen 1:28 : 28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
  • Gen 9:1 : 1 And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.
  • Gen 28:3-4 : 3 And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples. 4 And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.
  • Gen 48:4 : 4 And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.
  • Gen 28:14 : 14 Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
  • Gen 1:20 : 20 And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.
  • Gen 13:16 : 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.
  • Gen 17:4-6 : 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.
  • Gen 17:16 : 16 And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.
  • Gen 22:17 : 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;
  • Ps 105:24 : 24 And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.
  • Acts 7:17-18 : 17 But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt, 18 Till another king came to power, who had no knowledge of Joseph.
  • Gen 26:4 : 4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;
  • Gen 15:5 : 5 And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
  • Gen 48:16 : 16 The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.
  • Exod 12:37 : 37 And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.

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  • Gen 47:27
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    27 And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

  • Exod 1:8-13
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    8 Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.

    9 And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:

    10 Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.

    11 So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

    12 But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.

    13 And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:

  • Acts 7:17-18
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    17 But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

    18 Till another king came to power, who had no knowledge of Joseph.

  • Ps 105:24
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    24 And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.

  • Exod 1:19-20
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    19 And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.

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

  • Neh 9:23-25
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    23 And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

    24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

    25 And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

  • Exod 1:1
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    1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob.

  • Exod 1:5-6
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    5 All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.

    6 Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.

  • Exod 12:37
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    37 And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.

  • Deut 1:10-11
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    10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

    11 May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!

  • Gen 9:7
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    7 And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

  • Deut 7:13
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    13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
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    34 And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

  • Gen 1:22
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    22 And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

  • Exod 2:23
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    23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

  • Gen 1:28
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    28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

  • Gen 35:11
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    11 And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

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    1 And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

  • Gen 46:7
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    7 His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.

  • Gen 28:3
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    3 And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.

  • Judg 6:3
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    3 And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

  • Deut 8:13
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    13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;

  • Acts 7:11
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    11 Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

  • Gen 41:29
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    29 Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

  • Gen 48:4
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    4 And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.

  • Acts 7:6
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    6 And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

  • Gen 26:13
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    13 And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;

  • Deut 28:11
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    11 And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

  • Deut 11:21
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    21 So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.