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Genesis 17:20

And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

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Genesis 17:20

And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

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1 Nephi 13 — The Two Churches, the Plain and Precious, and the Gentile Vessel
2 Nephi 3 — Joseph of Egypt's Prophecy, the Choice Seer, and the Joining of the Two Records
2 Nephi 8 — Isaiah 51–52:2 — Look unto the Rock, the Cup of Trembling, Awake and Put on Strength
2 Nephi 23 — Isaiah 13 — The Burden of Babylon, the Day of the Lord, the Sanctified Ones
3 Nephi 12 — In Me It Hath All Been Fulfilled — The Beatitudes and the Higher Law
Alma 23 — They Never Did Fall Away — Seven Cities Converted, the Anti-Nephi-Lehies Named, and the Exceptions
Alma 48 — If All Men Had Been Like unto Moroni — The Portrait of a Man of God in Power
Mosiah 1 — Benjamin's Father-Discourse — Language, Records, the Mysteries, and the Name That Shall Never Be Blotted Out
Mosiah 5 — The Covenant Response — One Voice, No More Disposition to Evil, Spiritually Begotten Sons and Daughters, the Name in the Heart
Mosiah 23 — Alma's People in Helam — The Refused Kingship, the Liberty Doctrine, the Land Beautiful, the Amulonites Discovered, and the Lord Chasteneth Those Whom He Loveth
2 Kings 23 — The Book That Remade a King — Josiah's Covenant at the Pillar, the Fire Through Every High Place, the Passover No Generation Had Seen, and the Chariot That Came Home from Megiddo
Genesis 4 — Two Brothers and One Altar — the First Offering Accepted and Refused, Sin Crouching at the Door, the Blood That Cries from the Ground, and the Seed Appointed Instead of Abel
Genesis 5 — The Book of the Generations of Adam — the Likeness Handed Down, the Drumbeat of the Dying, the One Who Walked and Was Not, and the Son Named for Comfort
Job 12 — No Doubt Ye Are the People — Job Answers His Friends, Points to the Beasts, and Sings the Terrible Wisdom of God
Psalms 19 — Two Books of One Author — The Heavens That Preach Without Words and the Law That Revives the Soul
Psalms 26 — Judge Me, and Try My Reins — A Psalm of Integrity, the Washed Hands, and the Love of the House of the LORD
Moses 2 — I, God, Created — the Restored Creation, the Only Begotten as Agent, and the Seven Days
Moses 8 — Sons of God, Daughters of Men, and the Grief Before the Flood — Methuselah, Noah, and the End of an Age

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. Read Genesis 17:20 in context.