Genesis 13:16
I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as particles of dust! It will be easier to count the particles of dust than it will be to count your descendants [HYP].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
15I will give to you and your descendants all the land that you see; I will give it to you forever.
17Walk through the land in every direction, because I am going to give it all to you.”
Cross References
Genesis 15:5Then Yahweh took Abram outside of his tent and said, “Look up at the sky! Can you count the stars? No, you cannot count them because there are so many of them, and your descendants will be as numerous as the stars.”
Genesis 17:6I will enable you to have very many descendants, and I will cause them to become great nations/people-groups, and some of your descendants will become kings.
Genesis 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard what you asked me to do for him. I will bless him so that he also will have many descendants. Among his descendants will be rulers of twelve nations. And I will cause his descendants [MTY] to also become a great nation.
Genesis 21:13But I will also cause the son of your maidservant to be the ancestor of the people of a great nation [MTY], because he is also your son.”
Genesis 25:1Some time after Sarah died, Abraham married another woman, whose name was Keturah.
Genesis 28:3I will pray that God Almighty will bless you, and enable you to get married and have many descendants, in order that they will become many people-groups.
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 →