May mercy, peace, and love be lavished on you! ¹ 

when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,

But the more the Egyptians ¹  oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. ²  As a result the Egyptians loathed ³  the Israelites,

So God treated the midwives well, ¹  and the people multiplied and became very strong.

The Lord your God has increased your population ¹  to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky. ² 

Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, ¹  but you were not satisfied there either.

The Israelites, ¹  however, ²  were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, ³  so that the land was filled with them.

For because ¹  of me your days will be many, and years will be added ²  to your life.

The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders ¹  may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

Although Ephraim has built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning!

But the word of God ¹  kept on increasing ²  and multiplying.

If his children increase – it is for the sword! ¹  His offspring never have enough to eat. ² 

If you sin, how does it affect God? ¹  If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him? ² 

You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.’

You exalted yourselves against me with your speech ¹  and hurled many insults against me ²  – I have heard them all!

I spoke to the prophets; I myself revealed many visions; ¹  I spoke in parables ²  through ³  the prophets.”

May grace and peace be lavished on you ¹  as you grow ²  in the rich knowledge ³  of God and of Jesus our Lord! ⁴ 

“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, ¹  the people increased greatly in number ²  in Egypt,

Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.

In the east they settled as far as the entrance to the desert that stretches to the Euphrates River, for their cattle had increased in numbers in the land of Gilead.