Hebrews 6:14

King James Version

Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
He said, "I will surely bless you. I will give you many descendants."

Revised Standard Version
saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
sayinge: Surely I will blesse the and multiply the in dede.

Hebrew Names Version
saying, "Most surely I will bless you, and I will surely multiply you."

New American Standard Bible
saying, "INDEED I WILL GREATLY BLESS YOU AND I WILL GREATLY MULTIPLY YOU."

New Century Version
saying, "I will surely bless you and give you many descendants."

Update Bible Version
saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

English Standard Version
saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you."

World English Bible
saying, "Most surely I will bless you, and I will surely multiply you."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
he swore by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

Weymouth's New Testament
saying, "Assuredly I will bless you and bless you, I will increase you and increase you."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide, Y blessinge schal blesse thee, and Y multipliynge schal multiplie thee;

English Revised Version
saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

Berean Standard Bible
saying, "I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants."

Contemporary English Version
"I, the Lord, will bless you with many descendants!"

Amplified Bible
saying, "I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND I WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU."

American Standard Version
saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

Bible in Basic English
Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great.

Complete Jewish Bible
and said, "I will certainly bless you, and I will certainly give you many descendants";

Darby Translation
saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;

International Standard Version
He said, "I will certainly bless you and give you many descendants."Genesis 22:17">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
and said, Blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

Murdock Translation
and said: Blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

King James Version (1611)
Saying, Surely, blessing I will blesse thee, and multiplying I wil multiply thee.

New Living Translation
"I will certainly bless you, and I will multiply your descendants beyond number."

New Life Bible
He said, "I will make you happy in so many ways. For sure, I will give you many children."

New Revised Standard
saying, "I will surely bless you and multiply you."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Saying, Surely I wil aboundantly blesse thee and multiplie thee marueilously.

George Lamsa Translation
Saying, Blessing, I will bless you, and multiplying, I will multiply you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
saying - Truly, if blessing I will bless thee, and, multiplying, I will multiply thee;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee and multiplying I shall multiply thee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saying: Surely, blessyng I wyll blesse thee, and multipliyng, multiplie thee.

Good News Translation
He said, "I promise you that I will bless you and give you many descendants."

Christian Standard Bible®
I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply you.

Lexham English Bible
saying, "Surely I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply you."

Literal Translation
saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." Gen. 22:16, 17

Young's Literal Translation
saying, `Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde: Surely I wil blesse the and multiplye ye in dede.

Mace New Testament (1729)
"surely I will heap blessings upon thee, and will give thee a numerous posterity."

New English Translation
saying, " Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly ."

New King James Version
saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." Genesis 22:17">[fn]

Simplified Cowboy Version
saying, "I'm going to bless you and grow your herd bigger than any number."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
saying, "I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND I WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU."

Legacy Standard Bible
saying, "I will greatly bless you and I will greatly multiply you."

Contextual Overview

⁹ But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. ¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. ¹¹ And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: ¹² That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. ¹³ For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, ¹⁴ Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. ¹⁵ And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. ¹⁶ For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. ¹⁷ Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: ¹⁸ That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

multiplying: Genesis 17:2, Genesis 48:4, Exodus 32:13, Deuteronomy 1:10, Nehemiah 9:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 22:16 - General Psalms 3:8 - thy blessing Isaiah 52:6 - I am he Ezekiel 37:26 - multiply Hebrews 10:14 - them

Cross-References

Exodus 2:3
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

Matthew 24:38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

Luke 17:27
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

1 Peter 3:20
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Saying, surely blessing I will bless thee,.... Which is expressive of the certainty of the blessings; the reality and substantiality of them; the abundance of them, and the continuance of the same: and of this nature are all spiritual blessings; as to be chosen of God; to have God to be a covenant God and Father; to be justified, pardoned, adopted, and sanctified, and so have a right and title to eternal happiness:

and multiplying I will multiply thee; meaning both in his natural and spiritual seed, which has had its accomplishment.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee - That is, I will certainly bless thee. The phrase is a Hebrew mode of expression, to denote emphasis or certainty - indicated by the repetition of a word; compare Genesis 14:23; Exodus 8:10; Joel 3:14; Judges 5:30; Judges 15:16.

Multiplying I will multiply thee - I will greatly increase thee - I will grant thee an exceedingly numerous posterity.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee — I will continue to bless thee.

Multiplying I will multiply thee. — I will continue to increase thy posterity. In the most literal manner God continues to fulfil this promise; genuine Christians are Abraham's seed, and God is increasing their number daily. See the notes on Genesis 22:12-18; and Genesis 23:1.