Genesis 17:6 meaning and explanation

I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

Genesis 17:6, Berean Standard Bible

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God is speaking to Abram, who is ninety-nine and still childless by Sarah. Having renamed him Abraham, "father of many nations," God now spells out what that name will mean: extraordinary fruitfulness, whole nations traced to him, and kings among his descendants.

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