Genesis 13:16
And I have set your seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even your seed is numbered;
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
15for the whole of the land which you are seeing, I give it to you and to your Seed for all time.
17rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to you I give it.”
Cross References
Genesis 15:5and He brings him out outside and says, “Now look attentively toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them”; and He says to him, “Thus is your seed.”
Genesis 17:6and I have made you exceedingly fruitful, and made you become nations, and kings go out from you.
Genesis 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes does he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;
Genesis 21:13As for the son of the handmaid also, for a nation I set him, because he [is] your seed.”
Genesis 25:1And Abraham adds and takes a wife, and her name [is] Keturah;
Genesis 28:3and God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and you have become an assembly of peoples;
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 →