3668. 'And make you fruitful and multiply you' means the goods and truths deriving from that joining together. This is clear from the use of 'being fruitful' as having reference to good, and of 'multiplying' as having reference to truth, dealt with in 43, 55, 913, 983, 2846, 2847.

2847. 'I will certainly multiply' means derivations of truth from this affection. This is clear from the use of 'being multiplied' as having reference to truth, here therefore as derivations of truth from that affection, as stated immediately above. As regards 'being fruitful' having reference to good and 'being multiplied' to truth, see 43, 55, 913, 983.