I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.
Genesis 16:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) The angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will so greatly multiply your descendants that they cannot be numbered for multitude.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Also the Angel of the Lord said to her, I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be numbered for multitude. American Standard Version (1901) And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. Common English Bible The LORD’s messenger also said to her, “I will give you many children, so many they can’t be counted!” Catholic Public Domain Version And again he said, "I will multiply your offspring continuously, and they will not be numbered because of their multitude." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude. |
I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.
The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her.”
As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring.”
Then she went, and sat down over against him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, “Let me not look upon the death of the child.” And as she sat over against him, the child lifted up his voice and wept.
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him fast with your hand; for I will make him a great nation.”
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
“Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.
who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.
And the Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.”