Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
15for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
17Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”
Cross References
Genesis 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Genesis 17:6I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
Genesis 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 21:13But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
Genesis 25:1Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
Genesis 28:3May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company 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 →