Genesis 28:3

28:3 May the sovereign God 1  bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! 2  Then you will become 3  a large nation. 4 

1 tn Heb “El Shaddai.” See the extended note on the phrase “sovereign God” in Gen 17:1.

2 tn Heb “and make you fruitful and multiply you.” See Gen 17:6, 20 for similar terminology.

3 tn The perfect verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here indicates consequence. The collocation הָיָה + preposition לְ (hayah + lÿ) means “become.”

4 tn Heb “an assembly of peoples.”