## Luz ## See how you translated the name of this city in [Genesis 28:18](../28/18.md). ## in the land of Canaan. He blessed me and said to me ## This can be translated with the new sentence starting in a different place: "in the land of Canaan, and he blessed me. And he said to me" ## Behold ## “Look” or “Listen” or “Pay attention to what I am about to tell you.” ## I will make you fruitful, and multiply you ## The phrase "multiply you" explains how God would make Jacob "fruitful." AT: "I will give you very many descendants." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]]) ## multiply you. I will make of you an assembly ## "multiply you, and I will make many nations come from you" ## an everlasting possession ## "a permanent possession"