Genesis 13:16
And I will give you many descendants. They will be so many that no one will be able to count them. It would be just like trying to count all the bits of dirt in the ground!
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In The King James Version
In Context
17Now, go and look over the whole land, because I will give it all to you,” Yahweh said to Abram.
Cross References
Genesis 15:5Then Yahweh took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up to the sky and try and count the stars. Your descendants will increase until they are as many as those stars.”
Genesis 17:6And God said, “I will give you many descendants. Some of them will be kings in their countries. Your descendants will become so many that they will become nations.
Genesis 17:20I have heard what you asked me about Ishmael, and so I will bless him too, and I will also give him many children and many descendants. His twelve sons will be kings who will rule over their countries. All his many descendants will be one great nation.
Genesis 21:13But I will also give many children to Hagar's son, so that his children will become many and they also will become a nation. He too is your son.”
Genesis 25:1Abraham had another wife whose name was Keturah.
Genesis 28:3May the most powerful God bless you and your wife and give you many children, so that you may be the ancestor of many nations.
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 →