Genesis 13:16
And I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If any man is able to number the dust of the earth, he will be able to number your offspring as well.
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In Context
15All the land that you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring even forever.
17Arise and walk through the land in its length, and breadth. For I will give it to you.”
Cross References
Genesis 15:5And he brought him outside, and he said to him, “Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can.” And he said to him, “So also will your offspring be.”
Genesis 17:6And I will cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you.
Genesis 17:20Likewise, concerning Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless and enlarge him, and I will multiply him greatly. He will produce twelve leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 21:13Yet I will also make the son of the woman servant into a great nation, for he is your offspring.”
Genesis 25:1In truth, Abraham took another wife, named Keturah.
Genesis 28:3And may God almighty bless you, and may he cause you to increase and also to multiply, so that you may be influential among the people.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:15-18
God Confirms His Promise to Abram. ( b. c. 1917.) 14 And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of… Read the whole commentary →