And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
A multitude of people, х `amiym (H5971), peoples] - the word uniformly employed in the renewal of the promise to Jacob; whereas the expression used twice to Abraham is, that he should be a father of many х gowyim (H1471)] nations. The invariable use of these different terms in the two cases indicates an essential difference in the substance of the promise as made to the two patriarchs (see the note at Genesis 35:9-12; Genesis 48:3-4).