a father of # 01_GEN_17_04 # As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. a father of # 01_GEN_17_05 # 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. a father of # 45_ROM_04_17 # [As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,] before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.