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Genesis 17:5
Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.
Genesis 17:5 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Genesis 17:5 in other translations
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
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In context
2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.
3 Abram fell flat on his face.
4 And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
5 Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.
6 And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.
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