Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

And He brought him (Abram) forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.