And He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So are your seed.”
Genesis 13:16 - The Scriptures 1998 “And I shall make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that, if a man could count the dust of the earth, then your seed also could be counted. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the dust of the earth, then could your descendants also be counted. [Gen. 28:14.] American Standard Version (1901) 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 may thy seed also be numbered. Common English Bible I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth. If someone could count the bits of dust on the earth, then they could also count your descendants. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If any man is able to number the dust of the earth, he will be able to number your offspring as well. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also. |
And He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So are your seed.”
And the Messenger of יהוה said to her, “I am going to increase your seed greatly, too numerous to be counted.”
“And I shall bless her and also give you a son by her. And I shall bless her, and she shall become nations – sovereigns of peoples are to be from her.”
“And I give My covenant between Me and you, and shall greatly increase you.”
“And I shall make you bear fruit exceedingly, and make nations of you, and sovereigns shall come from you.
“And of the son of the female servant I also make a nation, because he is your seed.”
that I shall certainly bless you, and I shall certainly increase your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, and let your seed possess the gate of their enemies.
“And I shall increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I shall give all these lands to your seed. And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
“And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall break forth to the west and to the east, to the north and the south. And all the clans of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed.
“For You said, ‘I shall certainly do good to you, and shall make your seed as the sand of the sea, which are too numerous to count.’ ”
And he spent the night there, and took what came to his hand as a present for Ě
“And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted.
But יהוה showed favour to them, and had compassion on them, and turned toward them, for the sake of His covenant with Aḇ
and shall know that your seed are many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth.
‘As the host of the heavens is not counted, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I increase the descendants of Dawiḏ
‘יהוה your Elohim has increased you, and see, you are today as numerous as the stars of the heavens.
And so from one, and him as good as dead, were born as numerous as the stars of the heaven, as countless as the sand which is by the seashore.
After this I looked and saw a great crowd which no one was able to count, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and palm branches in their hands,
For they came up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as locusts. And they and their camels were without number. And they came into the land to destroy it.