Genesis 13:16
And I wyll make thy seed as the dust of the erth: so that yf a ma can nombre the dust of the erth than shall thy seed also be nombred.
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
In The King James Version
In Context
15for all the lande which thou seiste wyll I gyue vnto the and to thy seed for ever.
Cross References
Genesis 15:5And he brought him out at the doores ad sayde. Loke vpp vnto heaven and tell the starres yf thou be able to nobre them. And sayde vnto him Even so shall thy seed be.
Genesis 17:6and I will multiplye the excedyngly and wyll make nations of the: yee and kynges shall sprynge out of the.
Genesis 17:20And as concernynge Ismaell also I haue herde thy request: loo I will blesse him and encrease him and multiplye him excedyingly. Twelve prynces shall be begete and I will make a great nation of him.
Genesis 21:13Moreouer of the sonne of the Bondwoman will I make a nation because he is thy seed.
Genesis 25:1Abraha toke hi another wyfe cald Ketura
Genesis 28:3And God allmightie blesse the increase the and multiplie the that thou mayst be a nombre of people
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 →