Genesis 13:16
You will have so many descendants that they'll be like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count dust then they could count the number of your descendants!
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In Context
15I'm giving all this land you see to you and your descendants forever.
17Go and walk through the whole land in all directions because I'm giving it to you.”
Cross References
Genesis 15:5The Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up at the sky. See if you can count the stars! That's how many descendants you will have!”
Genesis 17:6I will make sure you have a large number of descendants. They will become many nations, and some of their kings will also come from your line.
Genesis 17:20Now about Ishmael. I heard what you said, and I will also bless him. I will make sure he has a great many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 21:13Don't worry—I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation because he's your son.”
Genesis 25:1Abraham married another wife; her name was Keturah.
Genesis 28:3God Almighty bless you and may your descendants be so numerous that you become 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 →